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A Green Garage

When Green was Keen. Jimmy Clark, seen here skirling around the Mexico City hairpin in 1965, drove "BRG" Lotuses to two F1 world championships plus victory at Indy—where the color was considered bad luck. Now we hear Honda is bringing green back to F1. Photo: Pete Lyons www.petelyons.com

Mainstream media are chattering these days about “green” cars. Like it’s some new idea. Well, I’ve been a fan of green machines since I saw my first Jaguar.

And MG. Triumph. Morgan. Lotus. Aston Martin. Austin-Healey. Bentley. Lister. Allard. Cooper. Lola. Jensen. Turner. Elva. Sunbeam. Singer. TVR. AC—as a youth I was particularly smitten by their Aceca-Bristol. And innumerable others, each of which could be had in various versions of “British Racing Green,” aka “BRG.”

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