I have an early tiger(B9472283) that I acquired with original paint. The
boot is body color, tools painted with cheap black paint, wheels are gray.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul R. Breuhan" <prbreuhan@hotmail.com>
To: <jservaites@woh.rr.com>
Cc: <alpines@autox.team.net>; <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: A question of colors...
> I have a Mk 1a Tiger.
>
> The jack and handle have a bit of black on them but I can tell how glossy
> they were.
>
> My rims have a bad coat of silver on them, with white (color of my car)
> under that and the same black under it all (on both front and back) again
> hard to tell how glossy.
>
> Paul
>
>
> >From: jumpinjan <jservaites@woh.rr.com>
> >To: "Paul R. Breuhan" <prbreuhan@hotmail.com>
> >CC: alpines@autox.team.net, tigers@autox.team.net
> >Subject: Re: A question of colors...
> >Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:15:47 -0700
> >
> >Paul,
> > We need specific info on what car/year you have. If it's an Alpine, all
> >the early series I&II had body color, series 3-V were Rootes paint code
> >#8 Foam Gray. I believe the early Tigers (I think) were also Foam Gray
> >and the MK-IIs were silver. The wheels were first painted a gloss black
> >and then only the wheel face was painted Foam gray. As for the rest of
> >the parts, if they were originally black then they should be painted a
> >"low" gloss black and not the high gloss urethanes. So the jack & jack
> >handle should be gloss black.
> >PS, I have master paint chips of all the Rootes colors, including Foam
> >gray. $18 each, which includes shipping.
> >Jan Servaites
>
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