Tim
It's your car and your in the drivers seat, in more ways than one,
for fit and finish.
I believe color or undercoating is acceptable. My Tiger has undercoating
but the Alpine parts car does not.
Currently a number of restorers are using truck bed liner material for
undercoating and some of those products can be tinted so you could have both
color and protection in one. I also believe you can paint color over these
products but you would need to check on that.
I have used Dupli-color Truck bed coating on other vehicles and I have found
it to be easy to apply with a nice finish from smooth to rough depending on
how it is applied and it seems to be very durable too.
Ron Fraser
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From: owner-tigers@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-tigers@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of GRMTim@aol.com
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 8:28 AM
To: tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: Thoughts on undercoating a Tiger
>From what I have learned from looking at my low mileage original car and
from
my studies, it appears that all Tigers had a crude black undercoating job
from the factory. Is this in fact true? What is current wisdom in this area?
While I understand the need for protection underneath the car and for
originality,
I have never been a fan of crude black undercoating jobs. I would rather
paint the underside body color (dark blue in my case) or at least spray the
bottom
with rockerpanel protectant and then paint it.
Any thoughts?
Tim Suddard
Classic Motorsports magazine
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