cheers Pete, hope this one doesn't take too much time, on closer inspection today it looks like it was beige,
Making a list of parts already, one thing that's worrying me is that it's a 1969 car with no seatbelts and has no mounting for them either. It doesn't look like it will affect the Mot as it wasn't on the fail certificate but looking at other 500s of the same age they had seatbelts