Cheers Jim.
Photo taken 28/2/09, 63k up. Now done 98.7k. When it's clean, polished, and the black bits done, it still looks great in the metal. Autoglym for everything.
As in my heading, smoke beige doesn't photograph well, I've tried it loads of times. In daylight, it has different tones (but not like those "flip" colours) depending on the quality and angle of the sun. Goes from a deep coppery gold to a really dark bronze. And I see there are lots of Mercs around now in a similar metallic brown.
Now, where did I leave my hat?