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Originally Posted by D-Type
The odds are that it was the standard SAAB dark green with whatever fancy name the marketing boys(or girls) gave it. If you could buy it in dark green, why buy it in any other colour and repaint it? Unless of course, they bought the car secondhand and rebuilt it for racing.
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Ooops there was a lot of varius green colours to be racing green
But however. I think the Hurell/North Saab was repainted to some kind of dark green.
You can see it at the picture with the Saab #43 stay below the Esso petrol-cistern. The inner wheelarch is ligth-grey, probably the same colour as the Swedish entered car. Even if the base-filler also was grey at Saab in this period. the inner seelarches always originaly was painted in the body colour.
The British entered car was in technical specification more close to a standard Saab 93 GT 750, but have some small body modifications to improve the aerodynamics. The small side inlet holes at both side of the central intake in teh front bonnet was covered, and the lower frontpanel was more modified to reduce drag, comapred to the Swedish car.
In opposite way the Swedish car was more heavily modified with watercooled brakes, 4-speed protoype gearbox and so on. But the body was more or less standard, just stripped to be as ligth as possible.