I had the pleasure(?) of visiting Dave Axisa today and paying my bill to date.  We decided to replace one of the front doors due to the, not unsurprising, extreme degradation of the structure.  Dave had rubbed the old door down and as if any further proof were needed, he found the dark blue stripe along the door tops from the Daily Express colour scheme.

You can also see the Sanyo light blue from 1982.




The 1981 colour scheme can be seen in the following picture on Frank De Jong's website History of the European Touring Car Championship:

The car is now in Birmingham to be dipped and primed before returning to Dave for final painting.