Pedantic painting Valve Chest Cover

[e-richard]

The car: 1937 Opal APE

Repainting the Valve chest cover. It will be all black, but what is the correct colour to pick out the Austin Logo?



Red or white?



So far, just undercoated.

[Ivor Hawkins]

I’m not sure the Austin logo was picked out in a contrasting colour, all the ones I’ve seen are black...I’d be happy to be corrected!

[Reckless Rat]

I painted mine bright red. It makes the car go really fast!

[Mike Costigan]

Your choice; originally the lettering was not picked out in a different colour.

[austin]

How about gold leaf? Added bonus is it's a nod to the Mclaren F1 engine bay...

[John Mason]

Reckers, That only works if you have the accompanying black and white chequered go faster stripe. As per the 1960’s mini’s. That is car not skirt.

John Mason.

[Steve kay]

That's a relief, I'm not the only sad soul who felt it necessary to spend those minutes picking out the name in red. Or indeed responding to a forum question as to which colour.

[Reckless Rat]

It's a bit like a broken pencil to be honest - you can't see the damn thing anyway (well not much of it). Mine is red because that's what was handy.

See what I mean?

[Steve kay]

Hang on, that looks like the entire valve chest cover, not just the picked out lettering!

[Reckless Rat]

That's what I said. I painted it red to make it go faster...