Good Day,
I went this weekend to pick up some paint to do my bugeye. The
place I go to (car color in Gilroy, CA) has been very helpful but
we were unable to come up with a paint code for "Old English White"
(WT-3) that would cross match to a modern code. Does anyone have
this info?
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Dan(dmullis@adobe.com)
1960 bugeye
Since this is my first email to the list, here is the story
of the car.
Sitting in a far corner of my neighbors yard, under a stack of
rotting tarps I could see the just enough of the smile to know
it was a bugeye. After months of watching it be neglected they
put their house up for sale. I walked over and asked, what
are you going to do with the Austin? "Why you want it?" was
her reply. I gave them $200 and towed it home. That was early
March. I have stripped it to bare metal and primed it. The
biggest issue I have is that some idiot cut a big hole in the
bonnet to add ventalation. I will post pictures on my web site
when I get some better progress. My plan early on was to buy a
1275 from mini-mania along with a 5-speed. But after reading
the conversations lately, I am leaning toward going stock
and try to rebuild it's 948 which looks to be a major ordeal.
Does anyone sell rebuilt 948's?
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