The jack on my S3 Alpine was black.
For Australian listers, if you can find an Auto paint distributor for Wattyl
paints, they still list about 70 Rootes colours on their computer data base
(many
cross-referenced to their original Berger or Lusteroid colour codes). Not all
Alpine colours are there (I think they only have colours used for Rootes cars
built
in Australia) but they do show Foam Grey.
Vic
Jan Eyerman wrote:
> Interesting... I have brand new jacks from my various Hillmans and they are
> red. The jacks from my '69 Alpine GT and Arrow are medium gray.
>
> Jan Eyerman
>
> "Paul R. Breuhan" <prbreuhan@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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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