Oh oh, watch this.... Daniel's car is a very early example (like mine), and
his windshield pillars should be the same color as the body. The change to
the silver color came at the same time as the switch away from the nine stud
hood.
Doug Ingram
Victoria BC
1958 Frogeye
AN5L/636
Your windshield pillars should have rounded
>corners at the top and they were actually painted a silver color, not unsimilar
>to the wheels. If you look in the inside of the pillar where the windshield
>has covered it you may find some of the original color for a match. Obviously,
>this paint didn't last too long as most of these pillars look like a matte
>aluminum color or have been polished by POs that think this looks better.
>You're choice.
> Mike
>MacLean
> 60
>Sprite
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>Daniel Thompson wrote:
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>> Listers:
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>> Those of you who don't care about originality please hit the delete key!
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>> I am about to paint the bugeye and need to know two things:
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>> The front and back wheel wells had thick, gloopy undercoating (anti-stone
>> chip stuff) sprayed on them before painting with final coat. Where was this
>> stuff sprayed? Was it only on the back panel of the front and rear wheel
>> wells or was it "all the way around"? did they spray some up into the top
>> surface of both wheel wells?
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>> Second, these crazy windshield pillars. I have two sets: one that has
>> rounded and soft corners and one that has more "squared off" corners on it
>> (I'm talking about the upper part of the pillar here). My understanding is
>> that the one with the more square corners is the very early type and the
>> softer one is the later, more common type. One thing is for sure, they are
>> different! Clarification?
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>> Thanks,
>>
>> Daniel
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