Throughout the production of the MGA 1500, MG offered a special top and
tonneau cover color which was only available on black and Glacier Blue
cars: Ice Blue. With the introduction of the model 1600, Ice Blue
top fabric was discontinued and hasn't been produced in four decades.
Most original Ice Blue tops have long since worn into uselessness, and
were replaced in later years with tops made of black material, the most
common and therefore most popular color for MGA top fabric, still produced
to this day.
With this in mind, many experts believed it would be impossible to find
material in the right color to produce an authentic top and tonneau
cover for this car. Inquiries made all over the world were fruitless.
One manufacturer in England suggested purchasing neutral colored
Everflex material and dyeing it with a paint-on vinyl dye which could
be mixed to color, "Although that's quite expensive."
Researchers hadn't even seen an Ice Blue top, nor even a photograph
of one. But there was a rumor that MGA restoration guru Todd Clarke, owner
of Clarke Spares and Restorations, had a new-old-stock tonneau cover made of
this elusive material.