My car had the original paint, and the engine bay and the trunk are body
color.
Joe Burlein
72 TR-6
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 08:29:23 -0500 Dwbradbury@ra.rockwell.com writes:
>
>
> Interesting,
> I am prep'ing for a frame-up restoration & have been taking lots of
> digital
> pictures. I noticed that my "trunk" is painted "black" but the rest
> of the
> car is the same body color (very faded blue).
> Dave
> 67 TR4 CTC 72959L
>
>
>
>
>
> "Daniel S. Eiland" <deiland1@elp.rr.com>@autox.team.net on
> 10/25/2000
> 07:05:34 PM
>
> Please respond to "Daniel S. Eiland" <deiland1@elp.rr.com>
>
> Sent by: owner-triumphs@autox.team.net
>
>
> To: <Herald948@aol.com>, <paul-m@mweb.co.za>,
> <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> cc:
> Subject: Re: TR6 engine bay
>
>
>
> Hi Listers,
>
> I'm new to the Triumph thing but I'm sure I read recently that
> these
> cars were painted all one color first, including under the hood,
> then the
> factory went back and sprayed over the body paint with black under
> the hood
> the trunk and the rear end. Maybe someone with experience a judging
> concours
> could tell us.
>
> Dan Eiland
> 72 TR6 CC80976U
> 71 TR6 CC60824LO
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Herald948@aol.com>
> To: <paul-m@mweb.co.za>; <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 8:36 AM
> Subject: Re: TR6 engine bay
>
>
> >
> > In a message dated 10/25/2000 6:48:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > paul-m@mweb.co.za writes:
> >
> > > My 1974 TR6 was resprayed fairly early in its life from magenta
> to
> > > signal red, but the engine bay is black. On the left front
> wheel arch,
> > > however, there is a British Leyland sticker saying something
> about
> > > emissions, which is over the black paint. Given the less than
> meticulous
> > > attention to detail exhibited elsewhere in the respray, I have
> trouble
> > > believing that the resprayer carefully unpeeled the sticker,
> then
> > > replaced it afterwards. Is it possible that my engine bay has
> always
> > > been black, or where they all the same colour as the bodywork,
> as all
> > > the pictures I've seen suggest?
> >
> > Paul (and others), is there the slightest possibility that your
> car was a
> CKD
> > car assembled in South Africa originally, in which case it likely
> was
> > finish-painted there and not at the factory in England? That might
> account
> > for a black-painted engine bay? Just a weird thought....
> >
> > --Andy
> >
> > Andrew Mace, President, The Vintage Triumph Register
> >
>
>
>
>
Joe Burlein
72 TR-6
Melbourne, FL
Real cars are designed to carry only two people, anything else is just a
bus.
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