I read here all the time but rarely add to conversation. I have owned a few mooneys in my day, but thats a different story.
I sold that plane to JC, and the gang over at Daytona Aircraft. I was going to use it for my summer project but have too many going on already. After the sale, I was at lunch with him when we were pushing ideas on how to paint it back and forth across the table. we even talked about just leaving it white with decals applied but he wanted a quality strip and paint. There were as I recall 3 different paint ideas we both liked, and we got them from google searching "Mooney 201 Paint schemes" on the old I phone.
I do this all the time to find ones I like, and we were torn between the Ovation scheme on a J and something completely different like new piper archers with the dark color on top.
i liked a blue one we found that had a slightly different factory scheme, and he wanted to go with a two tone black white grey stripe thing. As a broker, we talked about what will sell and get the most ramp appeal. the ovation 2 FACTORY scheme was chosen and he liked the color combination of that particular plane, then we added how it would look with heavy tinted windows. As a matter of fact I think there is two or three color combos that are identical on the net, just search images. Although the checkerboard is the only unique item about the paint job, it was not applied to N119MB. Standard Mooney factory paint, he liked the color combo. thats all.
to claim ownership of a color on a plane is crazy. and the scheme is standard Mooney stuff that was applied to the two planes in debate, and MANY MANY others.
Daytona is a great place to bring a mooney, they do wonderful work maintaining and restoring them. They work on my planes at times and the comments about how he handles his business ethics is just wrong especially because he liked a color.
I award you no points.
I enjoy reading here. I will now go back to hiding....