[TR] TR 3 Engine Colour

[DAVE HOGYE]

My TR2 engine painted red/orange and other spares.
Dave H.

> On 06/15/2023 5:40 AM PDT Don Hiscock <don.hiscock at gmail.com> wrote:
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> That would be news to me. The factory reconditioned engines I've seen in the UK were painted cheap black paint (as Jonmac notes) and got a special FRE plate covering the original engine number.
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> Some suppliers to the UK car industry did use different paint to denote reconditioned parts.  I believe that's the reason we sometimes see Lucas parts like wiper motors in a grayish-greenish-bluish color instead of the standard black.  A friend of mine told me once during his time as a motor factor that he sold remaindered gray-green-blue paint to one of the manufacturers so it could all be blended together and used on reconditioned parts...
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> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 11:21 PM Edward Hamer <hdrider570 at att.net mailto:hdrider570 at att.net> wrote:
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> > I seem to remember that the factory painted replacement engines red.
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> > Edward Hamer
> > Petaluma CA
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