[Mg-t] Original paint

[Bob Howard]

Charlie,
   How nice to find a car with original paint.
   Yes, some of the cars had different paints.  On some, the the wings
were painted with enamel because it was more chip-resistant, and the
bonnet, body sides, doors, etc were done in "cellulose enamel",  which
Americans call lacquer.   Chip Olds wrote about this somewhere in the
T-Series Handbook.  I do not know which colors were done in two paints;
not all were. 
   My dad polished right through the cellulose enamel with his favorite
Dupont #7, which said on the can "safe for enamels".  He learned, sadly,
that "enamel" meant different things on different shores of the Atlantic.
Bob
 
On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:14:22 -0400 Charlie Baldwin
<mgcharlie at comcast.net> writes:
> I have recently acquired a late 1953 TD that has what I believe to be 
> 
> the original paint on it.  In polishing it over the last few weeks, 
> the 
> paint on the fenders seems to responding somewhat differently from 
> that 
> on the tub.
> I seem to recall that some or maybe all TDs had a different type of 
> 
> paint in each of these areas.  Does anyone know if this is true?
> And if it is, what type of paint was original in each area?
> Thanks.
> Charlie Baldwin
> 
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