[TR] TR 3 Engine Colour

[Don Hiscock]

I have to double check with the owner of the TR3 with that FRE posted
earlier... Perhaps his IS blue-gray-green, too and it was just black with
fifty years of grime when I visited him.

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 10:12 AM DAVE HOGYE <dlhogye at comcast.net> wrote:

> This Vanguard engine is from a Renown Razor Edge.  Painted a metallic blue.
> Dave H.
>
> On 06/15/2023 5:40 AM PDT Don Hiscock <don.hiscock at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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...
>
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 11:21 PM Edward Hamer <hdrider570 at att.net> wrote:
>
> I seem to remember that the factory painted replacement engines red.
>
> Edward Hamer
> Petaluma CA
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