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Re: Concours Question

To: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>,
Subject: Re: Concours Question
From: Bill & Skip Pugh <anabil007@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:50:24 -0800
Hi  John,
        Well  I  could not agree with you more,  but it still  does 
not solve  my problem,
I  would  like to  use the  Eastwood  Hi Temp  paint (no Fred  I  am 
NOT going  to powder  coat them)  ... so far I have heard "Gray" and 
"Silver"  ... tis  a  puzzlement  ... not  to worry, plenty  of  time 
left  this  Winter  before the new  season  starts ..

>
>
>>Well  they are already "rust" ... but the Judges at the Serrano 
>>Concours said "any visible rust" requires a deduction ...
>
>Which just goes to show that the judges probably haven't got a clue 
>about original factory finish!!!! All TR's I drove, while still 
>smelling of upholstery glue and new paint, always had either rusty 
>manifolds or paint still in the process of burning off them. They 
>were like this in the vehicle transit parks and long before they 
>even got shipped out of the country or delivered to UK dealers.


-- 
Bill  Pugh
1957 TR3 TS16765L
aka
Casper
1970 TR6 CC59179L
aka
Rosey
Wallace, CA




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