Wait a minute here. Are you saying that these beautiful, anodized aluminum
windscreen pillars were actually painted??? Why would that be. It just
doesn't make sense to paint an anodized aluminum piece. God knows mine will
never be!
Jeff Church
AN5L 11627 - a "two-lift-the-dot"
>OK lets see if I can get this straight. From AN5/501 to AN5/5476 (less
5137,
>5287 and 5288 the the windscreen was the 9 male lift the dote fasteners
across
>the top of the frame. The frame pillars which had square edges (the ones
you
>refered to) were as you indicated, painted the same color as the body.
>From
>AN5/5477 to 50116 (plus 5137, 5287 and 5288); HAN6/101 to 24731, HAN7/24732
>on, the windshield frame had the two lift the dot fasteners. The AN5 had
one
>piece pillars with rounded edges and were painted silver. There is no
>mistake about this! The pillars other than the early numbers indicated
above
>were absolutely painted silver. This is as stated in the Sprite Concours
>Standards Published by the AH Concours Registry. I am one of a number of
>assistants working with Sprite Standards, Editor Bruce Gearns.
>By the way, for those who want to know, the correct color code for the
Pillars
>and the Bugeye and MKII wheels is
>PPG Delstar Acrylic Enamel
>DAR 2593X H
>Silver Poly.
>Hope this helps.
>
>george marinos
>sprite MKII AN6
>glen rock, nj
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