Many of you may remember the recent discussion about the shade of the
Eastwood powder coat maroon. Some of the "listers" were interested to see
if it matched MG engine maroon. Well Eastwood did a bit of investigating
and came up with the following information. I thought I would pass it
along. I have no financial interest in this at all, except that I may be
spending my money on a powder coat kit.
Larry Hoy
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-----Original Message-----
From: Marketer [mailto:marketer@eastwoodco.com]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 1999 1:21 PM
To: 'howersl@yahoo.com'; 'larryhoy@cwix.com'; 'neilc@tradesrv.com.au'
Subject:
I hope I have all of you who were in the discussion about determining the
correct color for an MG Maroon powder coat finish.
We had one of our MG enthusiasts here at Eastwood go to the Norristown, PA
swap meet the other week with several shades of Maroon powder. It turns
out that the current maroon powder that Eastwood carries (Part Number
10139) was the preferred maroon powder coating finish for MG maroon. We
decided to contact a respected authority: Todd Clarke of Clarke Spares for
an additional opinion since he specializes in MGA's. He sent us a sample
of the MG maroon he uses and we sent him samples of the maroon powder
coated finishes. While not an exact match to his maroon, Todd felt that
the Eastwood maroon is an acceptable color for all MGA's and early MGB's (3
main bearing engines) and appropriate for show cars.
Since some folks use the Moss MG maroon as a standard, I should note that
the Eastwood powdercoating Maroon is lighter and less red than the Moss MG
Maroon. I do not think this is a problem, in fact there are a number of MG
enthusuiasts that feel that the Moss color is on the dark side. To be
fair, all of the MG maroon engine paints we saw were slightly different in
color. As you know, we could go around in circles forever about the exact
MG maroon engine color if there ever was such a thing, but I now personally
feel confident enough to use this Maroon on my own MGA. Starting in the
April Eastwood catalog, we will list our maroon powder (10139) as MG
maroon.
Feel free to contact me should you have any questions.
Henry Hauptfuhrer
Product Manager
Eastwood 3/99
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