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<div>Motor show cars sometimes had white chassis - I cam across this she looking at the records at BMIHR Gaydon when I started building the 1958 Earls Court demonstrator (3a) registered 2SMC.</div>
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<div>Cars had three ‘standards’ of prep it seems and the records show ‘A/A’, ‘A/B’, ‘A/C’ etc but no one seems to know what that really meant. I surmised that it might be rolling chassis, display car and demonstrator car for test use just by looking at the
57 and 58 records and the cars pictured and my car, which had nice chrome bits everywhere but was also clearly nicely prepped at one time. Other at Earls Court that year were two shiny white 3a’s and a white rolling chassis. The red Glasgow and Geneva car
Registered 3SMC looks to have a white chassis from the period B&W pics. Could be all wrong of course.</div>
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<div>The other white chassis cars were from the competitions department who tended to paint some Chassis white (not all by any means) so that cracks could be seen easily. This flowed into the TR4 programme, where each of the four cars alway ran on white chassis
frames and still do today.</div>
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<div>Hope this is useful</div>
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On 26 Jan 2021, at 17:10, Henry A. Morrison via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> wrote:<br>
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My red 1960 has a white frame................I think my '57 white car is white as well..............</div>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Fot] TR3 frame color question</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Essentially, that seems to be true.<br>
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But I suspect white slipped through once in awhile because of display chassis, etc.<br>
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I encountered it when I was involved in a concours. <br>
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