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Re: Ken Gano/Geranium

To: Sale Stamp Company <salestamp@cillnet.com>
Subject: Re: Ken Gano/Geranium
From: Tom Strange <jantoms@vbe.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 20:23:32 -0800
Cc: Don Pikovnik <donp@ncweb.com>, triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Organization: Classic Autosports Ltd
References: <19981227230811421.AAA158@host.cillnet.com@salestamp>
I would use the trailer due to transmission oiling.   Without the input shaft
moving, on a long tow, you could easily have problems.
Tom

Sale Stamp Company wrote:

> Has anyone tried to use a Spitfire as a towbehind vehcile on a motorhome.
> If so, what can I expect in the way of problems and how did you tow it,
> tow-bar, car dollie, or trailer?
>
> ----------
> > From: Don Pikovnik <donp@ncweb.com>
> > To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: Ken Gano/Geranium
> > Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 4:10 PM
> >
> >
> > >Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 23:29:41 -0600
> > >From: kengano@advant.com (Gano, Ken)
> > >Subject: sex, politics, religion and color
> > >
> > >
> > >Having watched, and occasionally contributed to this list for a little
> over
> > >4 years, I feel justified in suggesting that color is another of hose
> topics
> > >best not discussed in the officers mess.
> > >
> > >While looking through some old material recently I noticed Triumph at
> one
> > >time offered a door casing (part #552884, among others) in a color
> called
> > >"Geranium."
> > >
> > >Well, for the life of me, I couldn't remember what a geranium looked
> like.
> > >Never fear, it's December and the Gurney's catalog is next to the
> commode.
> > >A quick look revels two geraniums.  One is a very red shade of purple.
> The
> > >other (called Johnson's Blue Geranium) is a definite blue with but the
> > >slightest tint of red.
> > >
> > >Well, which shade better describes what was used on our cars?  Either
> could
> > >make a striking contrast color.  I've heard some of the horror stories
> > >regarding color combinations.  I can only visualize geranium and yellow.
> > >
> > >Ken Gano
> > >downstate illinois
> > >'59 TR3A TS57756L
> > >'58 TR10 TBE9239LDLB
> >
> >
> > Ken,
> >
> > When I started my color book project, I received some old Dockers color
> > cards from John Twist at University Motors that had three of the rarest
> > Triumph colors (IMO), Geranium, Ice Blue, and Olive Yellow.  These of
> course
> > are paint colors, not trim.
> >
> > Geranium is red, quite a muddy version, almost a deep dirty pink, but red
> > nonetheless.  ICI has matched all three of these colors in a single layer
> > urethane called "2K" and added the colors to their database.  Admittedly,
> > the match was done to an old color card, not an original sample, but I
> > thought something was better than nothing.
> >
> > The colors can be mixed by any ICI supplier.  I have the ICI paint codes
> at
> > the shop and can post them if anyone is interested.  None of three colors
> > floats my boat, but hey, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right?
> >
> > Yours truly,
> >
> > Don Pikovnik
> > Coloramic Process, Inc.




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