Dwayne Cooper wrote:
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> First, my car seems to have some sort of stone-guard-type covering on
> the bottom of the rocker panels. It starts below the trim piece and is
> currently painted the body color. I was looking at the white car on the
> cover of the recent Moss catalog, and it looks like the rocker panels
> are black. Is the stoneguard stuff original (maybe a dealer option)?
> If so, what is the correct color (body or black) and what's a suitable
> replacement material?
Black. here's a picture of our original paint 74, you can just see the
back section of the rocker:
http://www.norcal-saac.org/triumph/pa060014.jpg
Sorry, no picture of the rear detail....
> Second, the back of the original car is black and the jambs all around
> seem to be body color. What color is the jamb around the trunk opening
> supposed to be? Is it body color on the sides and black (to match the
> rear panel) on the rear edge? Or is the whole thing body color with a
> masked edge on the back?
>
> Finally (for now), does anyone have a close up picture showing the rear
> panel that they could share? I'm trying to figure out where the correct
> edge is for the transition from black to body color should be. I'm sure
> (as in most things triumph) that this varied from painting-shift to
> painting shift, but want to see use a good example as a guide.
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