Grey Motor Colour Query
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:01 pm
G’day Fellas,
I know there are a lot of weird and wonderful variations of the grey motor grey but has any one seen this one before?
It is out of an Adelaide FB. I was told that it has done around 110,000 miles, the wear inside the cylinders is not excessive and is what I’d expect from an engine around that millage and the cam shaft still has the original fiber style cog as well also indicating that it is unmolested.
The colour doesn’t look original so I’m wondering if it has been reconditioned or perhaps just re-sprayed some where along the way. The rear main seal was shot and after a good clean you can see that it has also been painted behind the fly wheel which would indicate that it was professionally sprayed whilst out of the vehicle so if it was just a re-spray they were pretty keen and did a good job. I can not find any trace at all of another colour underneath at all so I’m starting to think it might be the original paint.
Any way it’s not a big drama but I really like the colour so if it is original, I would be keen to paint it the same. If it is not original I’d probably paint it the more conventional colour used by Trev and Rosco.
I know there are a lot of weird and wonderful variations of the grey motor grey but has any one seen this one before?
It is out of an Adelaide FB. I was told that it has done around 110,000 miles, the wear inside the cylinders is not excessive and is what I’d expect from an engine around that millage and the cam shaft still has the original fiber style cog as well also indicating that it is unmolested.
The colour doesn’t look original so I’m wondering if it has been reconditioned or perhaps just re-sprayed some where along the way. The rear main seal was shot and after a good clean you can see that it has also been painted behind the fly wheel which would indicate that it was professionally sprayed whilst out of the vehicle so if it was just a re-spray they were pretty keen and did a good job. I can not find any trace at all of another colour underneath at all so I’m starting to think it might be the original paint.
Any way it’s not a big drama but I really like the colour so if it is original, I would be keen to paint it the same. If it is not original I’d probably paint it the more conventional colour used by Trev and Rosco.