Robert
This is a case of it's your car, paint it the way you want. Your
way will be accepted by us all.
I like the contrasting color between BRG and the black top on my Tiger. If
the car was black I'm not sure off hand what color I would want the hardtop.
White or red come to mind first but pearl white might just win in my case.
It's hard to call when not in that situation.
Headliners are available from SS and others in several colors. The
headliner in my hardtop is an off white with small black dots.
Ron Fraser
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From: tigers-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of rande
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 7:26 AM
To: robertn@surewest.net
Cc: tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] hard top colors
Robert,
I would use Ron Frasers info on the headliner colors.
I had a discussion with Norm Miller about how hardtops were delivered. He
maintains that they were all shipped black. I have a couple of photos, one a
press photo showing a Tiger 1 with matching hard top, and the other showing
delivery of new 1966 Tiger's to a Madison, WI dealer with what to me look
like matching hardtops. To be fair to Norm,he has the same photo, and he
insists it doesn't match and is black.
As for whether the black tops were meant to be used black or were prepped
for repaint, they had the same finish as the rest of the car, but of course
a body shop could prep them for a color change, like any other painted
surface on the car. I have a black top, but my 1A started out as Embassy
Black.
According to the latest versions of the Canadian and European Tiger 2 sales
folders, you could get a like-painted hard top if you ordered it when you
ordered the car, or black from a dealer.
Rande
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