Whats the rarest colour from the factory??? i am thinking mercury grey or black am i right??

 

id say black dont see many about white and red are more popular

i had a black 1 once

mine i have now was mercury grey but white is nicer and couldnt find a nice white 1 lol

 

I'd say "rust-free"!! Micky

 

didn't they change the red in production from rosso to radiant so the early rosso is probably the one

 

LMAO

 

Id say rosso red as it was only on the early cars

 

Mine is rosso red from the factory and its an early 1989 so it wasnt just earlier cars that were rosso, i think they changed it at some point in 1989 to radiant red

 

yep on the rosso / radiant red 88 spec where rosso 90 spec was radiant but its still red

i think black

 

That dosnt make any sense. English please

 

Weird. Here in Finland black and red are normal colors, but white and mercury grey are rare.

 

i think black was is the rarest colour

but the

red was only changed when they changed spec

i.e 88 spec s2's where rosso red
90 spec s2's where radiant red

 

Black is king

 

Think you will find its nimbus grey ,my mate had a very early d plate s2 and it was nimbus grey from the factory had a lot of other early bits on it aswell as though they were using up all the mk3 stock on them

 

yes and some early mk4s had bronze glass not green in them

 

You mean like the 'Series Two Picture Database' thats a Sticky thread in this room?

 

Black was "special order" option only

 

Cant be many d plates left now??

 

were'nt d plates the worst for rot as they were left out when there was a strike or is that just a myth ?

 

Nope d plates were terrible in all fords as have had a few 3i's and xr2's and they were just awful for rot and rust.

 

id say either nimbus grey or moonstone blue

 

has there been a moonstone s2 ??

 

i was speaking to a guy in the concours section at santa pod,and he told me there was a guy who has one bought it from new, i couldnt believe it

 

I would love to see a factory nimbus or moonstone

As for the rotten D reg debate I personally have seen very solid examples and very rotten 90 spec examples. Went to have a look at a D reg recently and it was a lot better than most I have seen lately. They seem not to rot around the sunroof as much as later examples too IMO.

 

Factory nimbus,car is no more stripped due to rot

 

cool

 

Moonstone blue s2 from the factory!!! dont believe it

 

i thought that too

 

Here in spain black, white and red colours are very normal, but grey color is very rare.

 

It would have been a normal s2 colour like say grey and then sprayed at the factory moonstone but they never produced the s2 in moonstone, they were done in diamond white, nimbus grey, which then changed to mercury grey, rosso red, radiant red, black, as far as i can remember

 

he may have had it done by special order then, it was an 88 model

 

my old s2 in my sig was a d plate with 43k miles on it and it was completely mint.it was built in germany