Dan,
That could be. My 1971 (original owner) MGB jack is a dark red. Not quite
a maroon, but a dark red.
Hope this helps, but may not mean anything.
"Jay"
> ----------
> From: Dan Ray[SMTP:danray@bluegrass.net]
> Sent: Donnerstag, 30. April 1998 01:19
> To: Paul Hunt
> Cc: mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: MGB Jack Color - Now pretty much a trivial thread...:)
>
> Paul:
> Thanks for the quote! I guess I need to buy Clausager's book next. I just
> finally shelled out for the Bentley Manual (and a Chilton's for the wife's
> Mazda Mx-3).
> There are a lot of other things I could be worried about on this car, of
> course.
> My car is a "4/73", but the jack is blue. Of course, that really doesn't
> mean anything. Maybe I'll look for a picture of the King Dick (chuckle)
> red,
> and paint it that way, but the blue does look nice against the Blaze Red
> in
> the trunk.
> Again, this may be "pole-vaulting over mouse turds" (rather than anal),
> but
> anyone have a B (or Midget) with an April '73 date of manufacture? What
> color is your jack?
> I still think that in '73, they had a pile of red, black and blue jacks at
> Abingdon, and just tossed whichever one came to the top of the pile.
> Dan
> '73 B
>
>
> >Clausager doesn't seem to consider it anal to discuss colour, although he
> >stops short of paint codes for them.
> >
> >He says that "The original red-painted King Dick jack (AHH 6538) was
> rep[laced
> >in May 1973 by a stronger alternative (BHH 1264) from the same maker. A
> new
> >black Metallifacture jack (BHH 5329), introduced in February 1974 and
> common to
> >four-cylinder and V8 models ...). However on the previous page he says
> that
> >V8s "... initially (had) a different jack (BHH 5178) which was blue and
> made by
> >Metallifacture, although this was supplied with some four-cylinder cars
> as
> >well". The book has pictures of all three jacks but unfortunately car
> colours
> >are not in the same shots.
> >
> >PaulH.
> >
> >
>
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