Tim,
What you described agrees with what I have discovered on the 4 Spitfires
I have torn down.
Joe
Tim Greenlee wrote:
>
> I just removed the body from a 70 GT6. It appears that the body was placed
>on a black frame. The body and frame were then painted. Most of my frame was
>the color of the body, but there were parts of the frame that were still black
>of had a very light overspray of body color.
>
> Tim
>
> ----------
> From: William Davies[SMTP:w.davies@virgin.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 1998 12:53 AM
> To: Jack McCarrick
> Cc: Triumph Mailinglist
> Subject: Re: Body Color Frames
>
> Hi Jack,
> I don't know which type of Triumph you want to know about, but ALL
> Heralds certainly had the chassis painted in body colour, though there was a
> black paint underneath this. On those Heralds I have dismantled, the body
> colur extended to the top of the chassis rails - I don't know how the
> production process allowed this, as I always understood the shells were
> painted after fitting to the chassis. Anyone able to comment???
> Cheers,
> Bill.
>
> Jack McCarrick wrote:
>
> > Frames should be Black seems to be the common sentiment. I remember
> > reading that the factory produced some body colored frames. I'm finding
> > indications on the frame near the front springs that the frame was body
> > color. The surviving paint has too good of a surface to be overspray
> > and has survived because it was covered with undercoating.
> >
> > I have no current intention of this being a show car, but have had
> > several encourage me to keep the car authentic when I can. Once I strip
> > the frame all indications of that original implentation will be gone.
> > In this situation should the frame be kept body color?
>
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