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Re: paint colour & boot cover

To: HealeyOn@aol.com
Subject: Re: paint colour & boot cover
From: Ken Streeter <streeter@sanders.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:41:34 -0400
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
Organization: Lockheed Sanders, Inc.
References: <960917193911_480855639@emout07.mail.aol.com>
HealeyOn@aol.com wrote:
> 
> I just purchased a TR 6 with paint code 17...my original Triumph book calls
> it DAMSON....does anyone know the derivation of the colour or the derivation
> of the  name of the colour?....I was able to scrounge up a tan coloured boot
> cover for my top when it's down.....my seats & top are black....has anyone
> had any experience with dye colouring that material?..Any help will be
> appreciated.                                             Russ Mattson
> 

% webster damson
dam.son \'dam-z*n\ n [ME, fr. L prunum damascenum, lit., plum of
Damascus] 
   : an Asiatic plum (Prunus insititia or P. domestica insititia)
cultivated 
   for its small acid purple fruit; also : its fruit

--ken
VTR WWW Maintainer -- http://www.vtr.org
'74 TR6 Daily Driver, Paint Code #72, resprayed #32 by PO

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