Skip,
I'm driving TR250 #CD2205L. I did a resto back in '96 and my car had (has)
body color paint (BRG) in the same places as Don. I believe that the paint
was original.
Headlight buckets were black.
I can't speak to the wheels, they were wire.
Peter
'68 TR250
on 10/26/02 9:47 AM, Skip Montanaro at skip@pobox.com wrote:
>   Don> I am the original owner of my TR250.
> 
>   Don> It is dark blue and is still in the original paint.
> 
>   Don> The front valance below the bumper is blue -- same as the car --
>   Don> front and back.
> 
>   Don> The area behind the grill near the headlights is blue.
> 
>   Don> The bottom of the car is blue.
> 
>   Don> The steel wheels are silver.
> 
>   Don> The rockers are black undercoating.
> 
> Don,
> 
> What's your commission number?
> 
> I think perhaps we need a database to figure this thing out.  I can whip
> something up.  It seems we need these fields at least:
> 
>   commission #
>   original paint (y/n)
>   color of valance behind grille
>   color of the back of the valance
>   color of the headlight buckets
>   color of rockers
>   finish of rockers (smooth vs. undercoat)
>   color of wheels
> 
> I don't think the other parameters you mentioned are likely to have changed.
> I suspect we might find that somewhere during the run they switched from
> body color to black for the valance behind the grille though.
> 
> What other fields do people think would be useful?  What about TR5s?
 
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