Dwayne,
The original material used by Triumph was for the protection of the vulnerable
areas such as the underside of the rocker covers/sills and inner surfaces of
the wings was either "Supra Dedseal" or "Boscoseal 9020". Basically nothing
more than an underseal. This was always black and had the additional purpose,
other than protection, in that it made the side of the car appear shallower,
so for originality purposes it shouldn't be painted body colour.
With regard to the painting of the "jambs" they should be body colour except
for the rearmost which should be black. Have a look at our webmaster Mike
Brinkers website http://www.tr6world.com/ and the Bruce McWilliams interview
for a couple of photographs of the rear panel. They're not close up but will
give you a good idea of the extent of the black area.
Hope that this helps.
Regards
Derek Graham
CP54529-O
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From: "Dwayne Cooper" <dc_bruin@hotmail.com>
To: <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 4:57 PM
Subject: Painting Questions
I've got the 74 almost ready to be stripped of its very bad non original
paint job and have started trying to figure out a few things about the
original color schemes. First, my car seems to have some sort of
stone-guard-type covering on the bottom of the rocker panels. It starts below
the trim piece and is currently painted the body color. I was looking at the
white car on the cover of the recent Moss catalog, and it looks like the
rocker panels are black. Is the stoneguard stuff original (maybe a dealer
option)? If so, what is the correct color (body or black) and what's a
suitable replacement material?>
Second, the back of the original car is black and the jambs all around seem to
be body color. What color is the jamb around the trunk opening supposed to
be? Is it body color on the sides and black (to match the rear panel) on the
rear edge? Or is the whole thing body color with a masked edge on the back?
Finally (for now), does anyone have a close up picture showing the rear panel
that they could share? I'm trying to figure out where the correct edge is for
the transition from black to body color should be. I'm sure (as in most
things triumph) that this varied from painting-shift to painting shift, but
want to see use a good example as a guide.
Thanks,
Dwayne
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