I'll have to side with Andy on this one. All of the TR4's that I have
owned or parted out(total 7) have had tan painted hoodsticks as well as
3 TR3's that I ahve owned and none of these hoodsticks was ever
repainted except by me and when I did repaint I tried to find a tan as
close as possible to the original paint.
Lenny Seidman
Andrew Mace wrote:
>
> On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, John Pike wrote:
>
> > ...From a purely aesthetic viewpoint, I don't
> > think I'd like to see green sticks in a grey interior, and I'm sure you
> > could think of some other relatively ghastly combinations.
>
> I don't know, John. That appeared to be the way TS71909L was equipped
> *originally*. I stress originally, because the original grey interior is
> still there. Unfortunately, what's left of it lives under layers of vinyl
> paint: blue, tan and ultimately black. Apparently, the previous owners
> couldn't make up their mind WHAT color they wanted the inside! But the
> hoodsticks appear always to have been the green of the body. TS73624L,
> originally a white car, appears to have had white hoodsticks originally.
> So the body-color theory seems to bear out at least up through mid-April
> 1960, when 73624 was built.
>
> But I have seen (and/or owned) TR3As and TR3Bs in the higher 70000s or
> 80000s (comm. no.) with the "sandlewood"/beige) hoodsticks, notably
> TS80315L (sold) and TCF1564L (languishing along with all my other cars).
>
> --Andy
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Lenny Seidman
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, USA
email: lseidman@erols.com
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