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Re: Let me ask this another way...

To: Lonn Howard <hoops@owt.com>
Subject: Re: Let me ask this another way...
From: Carl Elliott <grunt2@adelphia.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 18:17:34 -0400
I have just refinished a 73 BGT, It came with undercoat in the wheel wells.
It now has new under coat in the wheel wells. Black rubber type.
Carl E.

Lonn Howard wrote:

> Due to the overwhelming lack of response I got from the list regarding
> the question of painting my wheel wells I'm going to have another go at
> it.  Let me explain.  I've always owned a TRIUMPH.  And with TRIUMPH
> motorcars I know where the battery is and what color the wheel wells
> should be.
>
>  Now.  I am resurrecting from near death a car I heretofore would have
> had nothing to do with, and in the words of Dr. Evil (from Austin
> Powers), "I need a little frickin' help here.  Somebody throw me a
> bone".
>
> OK. So. Should the wheel wells be painted black, the same color as the
> body, or glow-in-the-frickin'-dark pink?  I want to stay original and
> have no one else to turn to but the list.
>
> I've watched the list discourse driveline removal, baby seats, and now
> spark plugs 'til I wanna puke.  I just need one definitive answer.  And
> if I show up and my wheel wells are painted pink and everybody else's
> are painted body color, I'll know you weren't being straight with me.
> ;>)
>
> Pre.S.  if I ask the Triumph list what to paint the wheel wells of an
> MGBGT I !KNOW! I won't get a straight answer... but at least I'll get an
> answer.
>
> Pre.S.S  anybody going to the LBC Autojumble in Portland, OR next
> weekend?
>
> Thank you ever so much,
>
> Lonn Howard
> '70 TR6  -mine
> '71 TR6  -in my garage
> '70 MGB GT  -ours
> '89 Saab Turbo Convertible  -hers
>
> "We are but temporary custodians with an obligation of preservation."


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