<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">My friend Bob had the FRE engine out of his car in 2013, a couple of years before I snapped that photo of his rebuild tag, and while he didn't open up the engine he did paint the block black. And he has no recollection of what it was prior to that. Coulda been rebuild-blue/green, but no info.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 10:15 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">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.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 10:12 AM DAVE HOGYE <<a href="mailto:dlhogye@comcast.net" target="_blank">dlhogye@comcast.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"><u></u>
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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 <<a href="mailto:hdrider570@att.net" target="_blank">hdrider570@att.net</a>> wrote:
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I seem to remember that the factory painted replacement engines red.
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