In article <LAW2-OE37P4f7LXXcbd00003459@hotmail.com>, Suzie
<suzie_bear@hotmail.com> writes
>> >> Alternatively, I could
>> >> chip a bit of paint off the wheels of my new 1963 Herald and send it to
>> >> you for computer colour matching. Any use?
>> >> >
>> >How could you possibly suggest chipping away at your Herald! I hope the
>poor
>> >dear is far enough out of earshot not to have it's feelings hurt :o)
>>
>> Her poor wheels had been fitted with full-diameter hub-caps off a Ford
>> Zephyr, the retaining clips of which have badly damaged the paintwork on
>> them. That being the case, there are plenty of little chips of paint
>> flaking off that could be rescued and sent to you for analysis. After
>> all, its all got to come off before I get them repainted, and it
>> wouldn't hurt to use the right colour paint to do it! (Though it may
>> seem madness, there's method in't!)
>> >
>Ok, Michael, I think I can let you off after that explanation, think maybe
>the Herald will too :o)
I'm glad to hear it. :-)
>
>Although I like the idea of bring Sybil back to as original a state as
>possible I don't somehow think I'd be wanting to go to quite that extreme
>though it may be that someone has the facilities to do so easily and may
>take you up on the idea of analysing some paint chips -
Most commercial paint suppliers now do this as a matter of course - and
make the paint up to match the original sample.
> Alternately, someone
>else may have already done the research and can suggest a specific shade/can
>from Halfords etc to make things easier for the rest of us. You'll have seen
>that on the Herald list it's been suggested that the wheels had originally
>been done in Spa White but I don't know how easy (not being into the
>intricacies of paints & spraying myself) it is to come up with a current
>product from just the original paint name.
Nor do I. I would guess that it is impossible, but I've been wrong
before...
>
>> >It's just that Guy had the feeling
>> >that the shade of the wheels didn't exactly match the whites used on the
>car
>> >bodies at that time and I hoped to find confirmation or otherwise fo
>that.
>>
>> Interesting thought. He may be right. The wheels do seem a little
>> darker than the bodywork, but this is possibly because they have had
>> years of road grime building up under those Ford hub-caps, which is now
>> ingrained into the surface of the paint.
>> >
>Of course, it may be that the answer is that simple after all and that it
>was the same shade as the bodies. I wonder if anyone will ever come up with
>the definitive answer.
With all the experts that we have on these lists? I'd say it was
guaranteed!
ATB
--
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html
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