[TR] Subject: Re: Pain job for 1972 TR6

[Gene M]

John,

I took a look this morning at my TR6 books.  Bentley repair manual does show a color code in the SN for white.  I was not able to get any information to match a factory white 40 years ago.  PPG looked through all of their books and the only formula they could find was the Jaguar white, which what I went with.

My Brooklands Book Gold Portfolio which is a compilation of magazine articles and advertisements had no paint information and I couldn't find any article that had information on colors or paint type.

I did not mean to imply that different color body panels were used by the factory and then repainted.  My point was that my car, and all other cars I pulled parts from over the years were pieced together from wrecks.  I was never able to locate a salvage yard in Sacramento, CA that had white TR6 body panels.  I also could never find an intact left rear tail light assembly with all lenses still good--until someone told me about TRF and Moss Motors in the 1980's.

Were the TR6 painted with lacquer, and did the paint shop spray the assembled cars before the engine was dropped in or were the panels already painted?  The sequence of articles in the Brooklands Book indicates there were probably manufacturing changes over the years since 1969.

I am attaching 2 pics of the "square threaded" bolts that attached my body panels.  Can anyone identify?  If helpful, I will take some measurements and thread count--not to find a replacement, but to answer an issue that I encountered over 40 years ago.

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In the ten years I worked at StandardTriumph in Coventry (1965-1975) I would comment as follows:

1. White was always available as an original colour on all models with tan, black or red trim.

3. If I?ve read the post correctly, it seems you feel body panels were a sort of pick and mix in any colour before final painting? No way! All bodies for all markets and all models came out of the body shop in white undercoat prior to going through the paint shop in colour batches, with cars in black being painted only on Friday afternoons. This was intentional as Black was not a popular colour and allowed the spray lines to be flushed through prior to paint shop cleaning over the weekend.


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