The Helyett Speciale of Jacques Anquetil was green and also his jersey.
I think the green race car thing was mostly from an Indy 500 superstition and I think it was Janet Guthrie who drove the first green car there.
Derek Willburn
Long Beach, CA USA
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> emeneff@earthlink.net wrote:
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> >Good thing that I'm not bothered by that
> subjectivity foible. Just as long
> as everyone accepts my feeling that BLUE bicycles
> have always had a faster
> "feel"
> than most RED bicycles. I've brought this up with a
> number of ex-racers and
> old-timers and we usually always agree. Green seems
> to be in-between.<
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> There's a long standing belief that green bikes
> (and motorcycles and race cars, with the exception
> of BRG) are to be avoided like peanuts in pit lane
> or bananas on fishing boats. A question for the
> historians out there: other than Wiel's Groene
> Leeuw, who HAD to be green, have there ever been any
> pro teams with green livery?
> Jay "owner of a green Pogliaghi" Van De Velde,
> Seal Beach,CA
>
> "believing in superstitions causes bad luck"
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