I just removed the body from a 70 GT6. It appears that the body was placed on
a black frame. The body and frame were then painted. Most of my frame was the
color of the body, but there were parts of the frame that were still black of
had a very light overspray of body color.
Tim
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From: William Davies[SMTP:w.davies@virgin.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 1998 12:53 AM
To: Jack McCarrick
Cc: Triumph Mailinglist
Subject: Re: Body Color Frames
Hi Jack,
I don't know which type of Triumph you want to know about, but ALL
Heralds certainly had the chassis painted in body colour, though there was a
black paint underneath this. On those Heralds I have dismantled, the body
colur extended to the top of the chassis rails - I don't know how the
production process allowed this, as I always understood the shells were
painted after fitting to the chassis. Anyone able to comment???
Cheers,
Bill.
Jack McCarrick wrote:
> Frames should be Black seems to be the common sentiment. I remember
> reading that the factory produced some body colored frames. I'm finding
> indications on the frame near the front springs that the frame was body
> color. The surviving paint has too good of a surface to be overspray
> and has survived because it was covered with undercoating.
>
> I have no current intention of this being a show car, but have had
> several encourage me to keep the car authentic when I can. Once I strip
> the frame all indications of that original implentation will be gone.
> In this situation should the frame be kept body color?
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