William,
I have owned several low mileage all original paint TR6's. I currently have
a '72 that still wears its original paint. All of the cars were satin black
behind the grill except the '72 which is dark blue.. The color appeared to
be brushed on....at least brush marks were visible in the paint.
Chad
----- Original Message -----
From: Will <tr6@mac.com>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 1:45 PM
Subject: TR6 front valence paint
>
> Does anyone on the list have a 6 in original paint? I'm trying to
> find out if the section of the valence that the grill attaches to
> should be black or body colour. Its not that I'm completely obsessed
> with originality as much as I'm puzzled by a recent discovery....
>
> Just before my 6 was due to have the normal satin black areas painted
> I was looking through photos of the old body being stripped, I
> noticed this area of valence was also in black & rang the garage to
> remind them to paint that as well. Later someone asked me for some
> old pictures of the car prior to its theft, and one caught my eye. It
> showed the front of the car straight after a respray in '85; no black
> paint. I had assumed that the TR specialists who had done the respray
> had painted this black but obviously not...I know I didn't, so
> someone in the 14 years the car was missing decided to take the grill
> off and spray black behind it.
>
> Why? Were they obsessed with originality? Seems very strange,
> especially as there was only a couple of thousand miles added to the
> clock...
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