14-05-2022, 11:34 AM
Well done Frank! An absolute 'Tour de Force'!
Just one or two tiny points spring to mind:-
You seem to suggest that the waist moulding on the standard cars were painted in a lighter colour to the main body colour. Judging both from the brochures and indeed my own car, at least some of them appeared to have been painted with the waist moulding in a darker colour to that of the main body.
You also suggest that the standard cars were not coachlined. As I mentioned in a previous post, I have every reason to believe that my car's waistline is still the original factory colour and certainly has what i believe to be the correct coachlines (single along the bonnet widening to double along the sides of the scuttle and body and merging to a single line across the rear panel). examination of the lines with a magnifying glass shows them to have been expertly applied with a brush.
I would question the use my own car as a definitive example. as it was comprehensively 'done up' ( I would not describe it as restored!) some 50 years ago, but what are your (or indeed anyone else's) thoughts on these couple of observations?
Just one or two tiny points spring to mind:-
You seem to suggest that the waist moulding on the standard cars were painted in a lighter colour to the main body colour. Judging both from the brochures and indeed my own car, at least some of them appeared to have been painted with the waist moulding in a darker colour to that of the main body.
You also suggest that the standard cars were not coachlined. As I mentioned in a previous post, I have every reason to believe that my car's waistline is still the original factory colour and certainly has what i believe to be the correct coachlines (single along the bonnet widening to double along the sides of the scuttle and body and merging to a single line across the rear panel). examination of the lines with a magnifying glass shows them to have been expertly applied with a brush.
I would question the use my own car as a definitive example. as it was comprehensively 'done up' ( I would not describe it as restored!) some 50 years ago, but what are your (or indeed anyone else's) thoughts on these couple of observations?