All hard tops were painted black from the factory unless the car was a GT. Only
GT's had hard tops that were painted the same color as the body. Tiger Tom was
just telling me the story about a guy he knew that tried to special order a
silver top on his Series IV from the factory when he ordered the car new. The
factory wouldn't do it, so he had the dealership paint it before he would take
delivery of the car. All early (SI and SII) hard tops were black. This also
goes for tonneau and convertible tops as well. This can be found on the back
page of all Rootes sales brochures.
Keep in mind that these cars are now 40 years old. That hard top could have
been stripped and repainted prior to the Moonstone paint by someone that wanted
it to match.
Ian Spencer
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>>> Robert Dobrowski <rsdslp@juno.com> 12/14/01 02:23PM >>>
Interesting
Now you really have my curiosity up.
I have a basket case Series I Alpine sitting in front of my house that
was originally Moonstone and repainted black.
The black paint on the hardtop is peeling to reveal Moonstone paint
underneath.
I had assumed that the hardtop was originally painted moonstone to match
the body by the factory.
Does this mean that there is a layer factory black paint under the
moonstone on the hardtop?
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:43:48 -0500 Ian Spencer <ian@sunbeamalpine.org>
writes:
> Bob,
> I would use Moonstone. However, white was not the factory color on
> early hardtops, only
> black. So, there's no knowing what color was actually used on the
> Sebring race cars...
> unless we could actually get our hands on one! :-)
>
> "Berghult, Bob" wrote:
>
> > On the SunbeamaAlpine.org web site, does anyone know what color
> white is
> > used on the MPG clip showing the Series II in Seacrest Green
> number 41 race
> > car? We have a Series II with the color code 30 and want to paint
> the top
> > white. Any ideas?
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bob Berghult
> > Series II, B9119501 LSRX SB 30 (wife's)
> > Series 3, B9203825 LRX GT 39 (son's)
> > Series IV, B9405637 LRX 39 (mine)
> >
> > [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a
> name of image001.jpg]
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