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1. Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:05:04 -0500; Hi, It's me again :-) I am in the process of planning out my paint and primer purchase for the Bugeye resto project. I have read that under the bonnet everything was "blacked" out. Does this mean tha; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00786.html (7,753 bytes)
2. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:47:59 -0800; I know nothing of references, but on my '60 bugeye (which has been in the family since '67 and never had that part of the car repainted) the underside of the bonnet and the engine compartment are all; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00791.html (9,193 bytes)
3. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:14:02 -0500; Hey Ben. Under the bonnet should be body color not black. Plus if you use a color and not black things are a lot more visable down under. Phil Nase http://home.comcast.net/~philnasecpant Question; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00792.html (8,505 bytes)
4. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:07:12 -0500; Out of curiosity, where did you read this? jay fishbein wallingford, ct http://home.ix.netcom.com/~type79/; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00793.html (8,604 bytes)
5. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:47:24 -0800; Ben, All of the body is painted the same color with the exception of the radiator supports and the rails forward of the radiator supports which were painted black. On the last paint job, where we wen; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00794.html (8,723 bytes)
6. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:15:34 -0500; What they said for the all body color under the bonnet. Bugeyes usually were primer inside the boot area. It's a reddish brown color. We matched pretty close by mixing red oxide primer and black abou; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00796.html (9,476 bytes)
7. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:10:22 -0800; Sorry Dave, but when new, and to this day, my Frogeye had/has a flat gray on the boot floor, and gloss black on the ceiling of the boot. The gray is similar to the color of the composition material u; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00799.html (10,165 bytes)
8. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:37:07 -0500; I actually was refering to the ceiling portion. I have a new old stock fender in the black-brown primer and the inside of our 60 Bugeye matched that color. Close to black, just a bit brown looking. A; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00801.html (10,624 bytes)
9. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:52:18 -0500; As Dave said, one of my bugeyes had the ruddy brown boot ceiling, Another had a gloss black ceiling. I also have a red NOS fan blade along with a couple of yellow NOS blades. (metal ones) So does thi; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00803.html (9,092 bytes)
10. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:50:17 -0600; Not according to the Concours Judges!!!; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00808.html (9,784 bytes)
11. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:33:15 GMT jAO9XpRL026903; my engine compartment is body color...believe they all came that way... Spridgets, too. A lot of racing machines I've seen are white in and under there so's leaks of any sort can be easily seen. Don; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00812.html (8,415 bytes)
12. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:16:48 -0800; Like the color of paint each week :-) Bob Kitterer 1960 Sprite (Mk IV in disguise) 1966 Sprite Mk III (Trevor, in boxes) 2000 Miata Special Edition; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00826.html (8,867 bytes)
13. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:18:18 -0800; I have always believed that "concours" meant a set of purely artificial standards that were drawn up by a bunch of people who had never seen an actual brand new Frogeye Sprite. They simply rely on wh; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00827.html (10,136 bytes)
14. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:19:16 -0800; You better believe it reguardless of Concours. Bob Kitterer 1960 Sprite (Mk IV in disguise) 1966 Sprite Mk III (Trevor, in boxes) 2000 Miata Special Edition; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00828.html (8,869 bytes)
15. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:32:04 -0800; Sticking my neck out I think that Concours is the best consensus of how the cars were built or suppose to be built from the documentation available. The reality is that there was considerable variati; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00829.html (9,045 bytes)
16. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:03:34 -0800 (PST); Along these lines, one memorable issue of Road and Track 25 years or so ago tested a TVR. On the first acceleration run, they stripped the spider gears. TVR quickly found them a second car. On the 2n; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00839.html (9,134 bytes)
17. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:00:14 -0600; I think Lawrie Alexander provided a better explanation, and I'm paraphrasing, Councours quality is that which the car manufacturer would have attained were they showing the car at a major auto show,; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00865.html (9,542 bytes)
18. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:31:57 -0800; Peter, You are right, the dealer was sending it to a body shop to be painted !!!! Bob Kitterer 1960 Sprite (Mk IV in disguise) 1966 Sprite Mk III (Trevor, in boxes) 2000 Miata Special Edition; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00871.html (8,777 bytes)
19. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:09:44 -0800; In other words, modern-day guesswork; interpretation. Unless, of course, those determining the standards have the ability to read the minds of those long dead and gone. Buster; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00873.html (9,557 bytes)
20. Re: Bugeye Color/Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:12:30 -0600; Bricklin used to get his green cars painted around the corner from me. Just the green ones, as apparently the molded-in color green was never the same for each panel. Wonder which would be Concours c; /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00875.html (9,116 bytes)

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