late RP Standard and De Luxe / Stock Colours / definition of "black top"

[David Stepney]

I suspect that there are very few (if any) RNs or RPs with their original paint and thus the brochures are now the only thing (apart from people's memories) that can give us any idea of what the cars were like new. I was always under the impression that the saloons up until the advent of the RP saloons had black tops.