At 08:08 AM 11/19/98 -0500, R. John Lye wrote:
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>Its funny that you should ask this today, as several of us were discussing
>this over beers the other night. It started by someone mentioning
>John Mac's post that black cars were all painted on Fridays, so that
>the paint lines could be cleaned and purged over the weekend. Along
>with that, one of the guys (who has stripped quite a few Triumphs)
>mentioned that he thought many Triumphs got a coat of white paint
>before their "real" body color. Quite a few of us had seen a layer
>of white paint over the primer and under the body color. No-one really
>knew why this was so (maybe John Mac can help out here) but one thought
>was that if the factory didn't have an order for a specific color, and/or
>was going to store the body shell for any length of time, then the body got
>a coat of white paint to protect it, then was painted the proper color when
>it came onto the assembly line.
>
>cheers,
>
>John Lye
>rjl6n@Virginia.edu
I guess since I have a TR3B that came sporting black paint from Conventry,
and there are still a few spots of the original black, I need to go do a
little scraping. I can't imagine using a white primer on a black car.
On a side note, I have the BMIHT build certificate on this car. It was
built on September 7, 1962. Guess what? That was a Friday!
Way to go John Mac!
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