Yo-Tom Perhaps you should take a brush to your F type engine and paint it
French blue.I certainly expect it to be "dialed"---Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "tom metcalf" <mgtom@bright.net>
To: "Lew Palmer" <lpalmer@mn.mediaone.net>; "'Gerhard Maier'"
<m.g.erhard@gmx.de>; "'scarsdal'" <scarsdal@globalnet.co.uk>
Cc: <mg-mmm@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: Engine Colors Tabulation
> That's my take on it, too, Lew. A "dialed" engine. Regardless, a great
story
> and I'd like to hear more about the car and the owner(s).... tommm
>
> > Maybe a blue engine didn't necessarily indicate a "racing" engine as
> > much as an engine prepared to some unique specification - such as a
> > bespoke car. In other words, an engine which was somehow different than
> > the run-of-the-mill production engine.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Lew Palmer
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-mg-mmm@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mg-mmm@autox.team.net]
> > On Behalf Of Gerhard Maier
> > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 12:44 PM
> > To: scarsdal; Lew Palmer
> > Cc: mg-mmm@autox.team.net
> > Subject: AW: Engine Colors Tabulation
> >
> > That's a MMM with a really enjoying history to read !!
> >
> > Obviously Abingdon put it in the category " Racing", because of the many
> > special goodies which were fitted.
> > So the engine was painted BLUE ??
> >
> > Gerhard
> >
> > -----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: owner-mg-mmm@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mg-mmm@autox.team.net]Im
> > Auftrag von scarsdal
> > Gesendet: Freitag, 18. Januar 2002 17:14
> > An: Lew Palmer
> > Cc: mg-mmm@autox.team.net
> > Betreff: Re: Engine Colors Tabulation
> >
> >
> > Subject: RE: Engine Colors Tabulation
> >
> > Lew, our PB was bought new by my father,(still registered & occasionally
> > driven by him) He specified various modifications from the factory,
> > including a special crank, camshaft, & a Marshal supercharger, all of
> > which
> > are still on the car. When the car was collected direct from Abingdon
> > the
> > engine had been painted Blue (almost Bugatti blue). When the engine was
> > stripped by me in '91, for a first rebuild!,I found no trace of any
> > other
> > colour although internally the block was painted with what looked like
> > red
> > oxide.
> > Graham Whitaker (PA, SA, & various Wolseley Hornet Specials)
> >
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