Articles or sourcing

[Ensis Ferrae]

Hello all,

 

I am a historian by degree, and obviously love cars. . . There's a book or article that I'm after that I have not been able to find to this point.

 

Long and short of it is, I'm wanting something that goes into the details on the how's and why's of the old, old racing colors. As most of us know cars were largely assigned colors based on their country of manufacture. . . So, I'm after a book/article/documentary video or something that really digs into that.

[stitchdup]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_auto_racing_colours

Edited April 7, 2019 by stitchdup

[Richard Bartrop]

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/09/25/what-no-polka-dots-the-expected-and-the-unexpected-among-international-racing-colors/

[Ensis Ferrae]

On 4/7/2019 at 12:46 PM, Richard Bartrop said:

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/09/25/what-no-polka-dots-the-expected-and-the-unexpected-among-international-racing-colors/

Ohh this one is pretty good, looks well researched and admits their own limitations.  Thanks

[Richard Bartrop]

No problem.  They also did an interesting analysis on the origins of German racing silver. https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/06/04/so-that-story-youve-heard-about-how-silver-became-germanys-national-racing-color-not-really-true/