"Stephen F. Bauserman" <sbauserm@actsnet.com> writes
>I have a retored '67 4/4. When the previous owner restored the car he made
>it as original as possible. The underside of the wings is red like the
>body. The chassis, wood, wheel arches, and rear axle are all black.
>
>This brings up another question in this thread. I have seen several
>Morgans in which the flloor boards were either varnished or stained. Mine
>are painted black. how do they come from the factory now? Back then?
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Until recently, 1986 or so, most bits of Morgan that weren't painted the
body colour were brush painted black, (usually with a rough hairy brush
and not too much care of splashing).
Post 1986, most metal bit of morgans were powder-coated black and the
wooden bits were either brush painted black, so the rest of the body
work wouldn't need masking, or left in the preservative only, (one year
old car I have seen was painted black, another was only blacked in the
footwells). Bought in componants would be left in the colour they were
delivered, factory made ones would all be powder-coated black. John
Worrall's "Original Morgan" suggests that some of the early powder-
coated morgans also got the benefit of the black hairy brush as well!
Floor boards in pre-1986 cars, (at least for the few unmolested ones
I've seen) were black paint on the top and bottom. On post '86 cars,
they appear to be the dreaded black paint again, although I've seen some
with just the preservative.
The book, "Famous Car Factories, Morgan", (Bengt Ason Holm, Motorbooks
International ISBN 0-87938-558-8), has some beautiful pictures of cars
in various states of completion and will no doubt provide concour freaks
of 2020 much food for thought!
Most morgan owners "over-restore" their cars to a much better finish
than provided by the factory- my car's bulkhead has been spray painted
when it would have had the black sploge treatment!
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Jeremy Edwards
1972 Morgan 4/4
1970 Opel GT
Melton Mowbray, England
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