<TR250Driver@aol.com> Darrell wrote
There is precedence for this since some TR3A's got Powder Blue
> frames! The story circulating is that there was a glut of Powder Blue
paint
> so the factory just used it up on some frames. I have seen a couple of
show
> cars done up this way that are both Signal Red with the Powder Blue
frames.
> They are really kind of cool. Anyone else out there with a Powder Blue
> frame? Scratch some of that muffle coat off, you might have one and not
even
> know it.
> Just Curious,
> Darrell
When I was doing my full body-off restoration from 1987 to 1990, I used a
propane torchand paint thinner to remove the dealer-applied tar-based
undercoating. The frame, where it wasn't rusty, was pale yellow and the TR
choice of colors did not yet include "pale yellow" or whatever it's called
as a TR color in 1958. I wrote to Bill Piggott and he did a lot of checking
and came back with "no records or evidence of anything other than black. In
England, the frame and everything under a car is cattled the blackworks".
So I did it black instead of yellow.
There you are Darrell, "now you have the rest of the story" and next year
you can dock me a few points in the concours because my car has a black
frame and is not as it was "originally",
Confession by:...
Don Elliott, Original Owner, 1958 TR3A, TS 27489 LO
Montreal, Canada
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