[Mg-t] Original paint

[Bob Donahue]

On a related note, I discovered that you can polish right through chrome
also. BE CAREFUL. If you have a stubborn smashed bug on your radiator shell,
place a wet towel over it until it softens up. Do not try to polish it off.

Bob Donahue (Still Stuck in the '50s)
Email - bobmgtd at comcast.net
Cars:       52 MGTD - #17639
               71 MGB - #GHN5UB254361
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               Olde Octagons of Indiana

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Howard" <mgbob at juno.com>
To: <mgcharlie at comcast.net>
Cc: <mg-t at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Mg-t] Original paint


> Charlie,
>   How nice to find a car with original paint.
>   Yes, some of the cars had different paints.  On some, the the wings
> were painted with enamel because it was more chip-resistant, and the
> bonnet, body sides, doors, etc were done in "cellulose enamel",  which
> Americans call lacquer.   Chip Olds wrote about this somewhere in the
> T-Series Handbook.  I do not know which colors were done in two paints;
> not all were.
>   My dad polished right through the cellulose enamel with his favorite
> Dupont #7, which said on the can "safe for enamels".  He learned, sadly,
> that "enamel" meant different things on different shores of the Atlantic.
> Bob
>
> On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:14:22 -0400 Charlie Baldwin
> <mgcharlie at comcast.net> writes:
>> I have recently acquired a late 1953 TD that has what I believe to be
>>
>> the original paint on it.  In polishing it over the last few weeks,
>> the
>> paint on the fenders seems to responding somewhat differently from
>> that
>> on the tub.
>> I seem to recall that some or maybe all TDs had a different type of
>>
>> paint in each of these areas.  Does anyone know if this is true?
>> And if it is, what type of paint was original in each area?
>> Thanks.
>> Charlie Baldwin