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mikebh
Joined: 29 Oct 2010 Posts: 7 Location: lancashire
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 9:17 pm Post subject: engine paint |
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need advice please , the engine from our 1969 mk2 cortina 1600e is painted blue . apparently because its a replacement 711m engine. but for an original restoration do we paint it blue or black as it would have come out of the factory? _________________ mike |
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47p2
Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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If you paint it blue everyone will tell you it's not the correct colour even though it is, so it could make for a conversation point. If you paint it black everyone will just look and think it was meant to be black _________________ ROVER
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22447 Location: UK
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mikebh
Joined: 29 Oct 2010 Posts: 7 Location: lancashire
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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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thanks for the advice guys i think blue would be best. _________________ mike |
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Jim.Walker
Joined: 27 Dec 2008 Posts: 1229 Location: Chesterfield
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Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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Rick wrote: | I'd stick with blue. Like with an Austin or a Morris, if it had a Goldseal replacement engine, I'd leave it painted gold.
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I'd agree with Rick. My old Austin hire car has a BMC gold seal engine on which the cylinder head was faulty. BMC supplied a replacement painted red. The car ran for years with the engine in those colours, so when I did strip it and overhaul it I painted it the same.
Does that make it a Testa Rossa?? _________________ Quote from my late Dad:- You only need a woman and a car and you have all the problems you
are ever likely to want". Computers had not been invented then! |
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