<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The image as a link for email clients that don't like inserting from URLs:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-XvTTKzN/0/26f8c2fc/X5/i-XvTTKzN-X5.jpg">https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-XvTTKzN/0/26f8c2fc/X5/i-XvTTKzN-X5.jpg</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">And BTW -- red-orange paint was used on some four-cylinder TR engines in the form of marshaling marks to organize production.  My TSF-series TR3B, produced like all of 'em during the early simultaneous production of the TR4, had hand-painted orange-red marks on the black block that appear to have been TR4 first, then overpainted (correctly) as TR3.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-8JLFjcP/0/053a1b23/X5/i-8JLFjcP-X5.jpg">https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-8JLFjcP/0/053a1b23/X5/i-8JLFjcP-X5.jpg</a><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 7:40 AM Don Hiscock <<a href="mailto:don.hiscock@gmail.com">don.hiscock@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><img width="562" height="375"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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...</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 11:21 PM Edward Hamer <<a href="mailto:hdrider570@att.net" target="_blank">hdrider570@att.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">



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<div dir="auto">I seem to remember that the factory painted replacement engines red.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Edward Hamer</div>
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