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Re: Color on Hard Top

To: Robert Dobrowski <rsdslp@juno.com>
Subject: Re: Color on Hard Top
From: Brent Kasl <kasl100@navix.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:03:18 -0600
Per the Alpine sales brochures, all hard tops are black from the factory
unless you special order yours to match the car color. Brent

Robert Dobrowski wrote:

> Interesting
> Now you really have my curiosity up.
> I have a basket case Series I Alpine sitting in front of my house that
> was originally Moonstone and repainted black.
> The black paint on the hardtop is peeling to reveal Moonstone paint
> underneath.
> I had assumed that the hardtop was originally painted moonstone to match
> the body by the factory.
> Does this mean that there is a layer factory black paint under the
> moonstone on the hardtop?
>
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:43:48 -0500 Ian Spencer <ian@sunbeamalpine.org>
> writes:
> > Bob,
> > I would use Moonstone. However, white was not the factory color on
> > early hardtops, only
> > black. So, there's no knowing what color was actually used on the
> > Sebring race cars...
> > unless we could actually get our hands on one! :-)
> >
> > "Berghult, Bob" wrote:
> >
> > > On the SunbeamaAlpine.org web site, does anyone know what color
> > white is
> > > used on the MPG clip showing the Series II in Seacrest Green
> > number 41 race
> > > car?  We have a Series II with the color code 30 and want to paint
> > the top
> > > white.  Any ideas?
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Bob Berghult
> > > Series II, B9119501 LSRX SB 30 (wife's)
> > > Series 3, B9203825 LRX GT 39 (son's)
> > > Series IV, B9405637 LRX 39 (mine)
> > >
> > > [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a
> > name of image001.jpg]
>
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