I dont think I could find a souce for this answer, but trust me. You see, when i was a lad, the car I really coveted was the type driven by Billy Fury, one of the UK's original greats in the music world, but what was the car he drove (and had wanted to own since whenever) and, for multiple bonus points, what colour was it?

I found this ,Colin:

His first car was a powder blue £1,200 MG Sports, on which he paid for £400-worth of modifications, but he eventually tired of it.

He decided he wanted an E-Type Jaguar or an Aston Martin, but the best insurance quotation he could get was for a premium of £500 a year, with an excess of £150. Larry Parnes was not known for his generosity with his singers, and Billy decided to settle for a Humber Super Snipe. ( the color is not mentioned) Source

Yes, powder blue it is. Multiple bonus points richly earned!
PS He also coveted a powder blue Triumph Spitfire as I recall, and may even have owned one at some point.

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Humber Super Snipe.( the color is not mentioned)

Mozart behold

Humber Super Snipe.

Triumph Spitfire

Which would you prefer?

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Originally posted by bedstor:

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Humber Super Snipe.( the color is not mentioned)

Mozart behold

Humber Super Snipe.

Triumph Spitfire

Which would you prefer?

Humber Super Snipe? For a pop star? It's the kind of car he might buy for his parents, not himself. It was associated with dull, older, people such as bank managers and school masters. Hardly a car for pulling the birds or tearing round the North Circular Road in

The Spitfire was a lot more spit than fire, though it looked quite sporty. It was based on a small saloon, the Triumph Herald (a car so boring that I learned to drive in one !)
P.S The E-type Jaguar was certainly no car for a young driver. It was claimed, by the makers, to do 150 mph (in fact , if it ever got near that it was going downhill and the driver was wearing his cap on backwards to minimise the wind resistance) Insurers needn't have worried: the radiator would have emptied itself long before it reached 60 , such was the quality of British cars of that era!