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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK
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badhuis
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1390 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 11:32 am Post subject: |
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Did they really use bright yellow paint back then? Makes it look cheap in my eyes.
Lovely truck by the way. _________________ a car stops being fun when it becomes an investment |
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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 1953 Location: East Yorkshire
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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I like it....
Regarding the paint?
This all really smacks of what I , personally, call, ''Minilite'' syndrome.
Referring to the tendency for old-car owners across the spectrum, of fitting 'fake Minilite wheels'...to every conceivable type of car, sporting or not.
Back, ''in-the-day''...Minilites were incredibly expensive, relatively-speaking.
Even the ally versions were quite pricey.
So it was rare to find them fitted to every other MGB or Austin Cambridge! Never mind Riley 1.5s...!
Yet today, they are abundant!
Which, for me, rather spoils the whole effect?
Purely personal view, this....I don't expect it to fall in line with general opinions in any way, shape, or form. |
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Riley Blue
Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1750 Location: Derbyshire
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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Alastair, your posts often make me smile but this one more than most as I suffer from acute 'Minilite Syndrome' - not only do I have 'fake' Minilites on my car (did you know thye're made by the same company that makes the real thing?) but the car they're on is a Riley 1.5.
On top of that, the Riley they're on has been re-painted in a non-standard bright blue but I'll be kind and spare you a photo.
I know there's no cure but as long as it's my car, I'll do to it what I enjoy and if others don't appreciate it... well, Rhett Butler says it rather well to Scarlett O'Hara when she asks him "Where shall I go? What shall I do?"
As for the yellow paint used in the Morris lorry; I think it looks great. _________________ David
1963 Riley 1.5
1965 Riley 1.5 |
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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 1953 Location: East Yorkshire
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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I just 'happened' to pick the Riley, and didn't have any particular vehicle in mind.
What irks me is, remembering the era when these sorts of cars were in common use, I'd prefer to see the fitment [if modifying] what would have been commonplace [and affordable?] of the time.
Way back in the '60's and early '70's, I would have given my back teeth [I still had some!]....for a set of minilites...even lookalikes.
I did have a set of centre-lock Pierce Magnas......but they required a bit of wheelarch easing to work properly, so I sold them on.
Above is a fairly recent acquisition of mine, so I cannot really 'talk'!!
Still, they were what it came on, so to speak.
Don't ask me 'why?' I have no idea why I bought this Mustang...it's certainly not 'me'...[I am, at best, scruffy!]
Certainly it is absolutely nothing like a Ford ModelY! |
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mikeC
Joined: 31 Jul 2009 Posts: 1775 Location: Market Warsop, Nottinghamshire
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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badhuis wrote: | Did they really use bright yellow paint back then? Makes it look cheap in my eyes.
Lovely truck by the way. |
Certainly they had bright yellow paint in the 1920s - but painted on a commercial vehicle? I think not! The cab might well have been painted a light cream, but the wheels almost certainly would have been black; lettering might have been yellow... perhaps!
Noddy has a lot to answer for _________________ in the garage: 1938 Talbot Ten Airline
Recently departed: 1953 Lancia Appia, 1931 Austin Seven, 1967 Singer Chamois, 1914 Saxon, 1930 Morris Cowley, 1936 BSA Scout, 1958 Lancia Appia coupe, 1922 Star 11.9 ... the list goes on! |
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Penguin45
Joined: 28 Jul 2014 Posts: 381 Location: Padiham
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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Personally, I like the overall look of the thing. Jolly. What I don't like is the modern plumbing stop in the fuel line. How much would it have cost to have found and fitted a period-style fitment?
P45. _________________ '67 Wolseley MkI 18/85, '70 Austin MkII 1800 The Landcrab Forum. |
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