Terry:
This brings to mind my 48 Y type. It has a black painted engine. This was
done at the factory in memory of the death of Cecil Kimber's mother's dentist.
Hows that for a bit of trivia!!!!!!!
SKip..................At 06:43 PM 2/16/98 EST, TATERRY@aol.com wrote:
>Lest we forget our departed comrade and lists humorist....one from the
>archives:
>
>Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
>
>> On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Rick Brodeur wrote:
>>
>> > We are restoring a 1950 MGTD which has a grey painted frame. The current
>> > owner has had the car since 1958 and this is its first complete tear down
>> > while he has owned it. All references I can find indicate that all
frames
>> > were painted black. The paint seems to be original. Does anyone have
any
>> > additional info? I appreciate any help.
>>
>> The factory probably ran out of black that day, so someone grabbed a
>> can a gray paint just in order to meet the day's quota. They were not
>> really concerned with 'originality' in the factory.
>>
>> Dirk
>
>If you managed a factory making cars you thought one day would be
>classics, it would be one hell of a lot of fun to play little tricks on
>future concours restorers.
>
>I imagine this conversation between the shop foreman and his workers:
>
>"Boys, I think Cecil's taken leave of 'is senses. 'e says we're to paint
>all the frames light grey this week, greenish grey next week, then change
>back to black. 'e's the boss, so paint them grey. And I asked 'im what
>yer wanted to know, and get this: 'e says 'MOWOG' don't mean any damn thing
>at all! When I left, 'e was laughin' 'is arse off!"
>
> Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics.
>
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