26R painting practice in period
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 4:17 pm
In a few days a TTR shell arrives for rebuilding an S2 into a GTS, so painting is on my mind.
It is easy to see how people paint their car 26R or GTS today--anything goes!
It is far more difficult to see how the original cars were finished. Most of the photos are black and white. Very few show details such as inside the wheel wells, underneath, engine compartment, boot, stripped interior, overspray, etc. And I suppose the cars came to the owners by different routes. Some appear to be repurposed production shells. Some appear to have typical flairs, others are a bit different. So it seems a guy could have acquired a new 26R complete with factory paint as per production car, complete with paint with modified shell, complete in primer, kit with either paint or primer, or perhaps in unassembled kit with bare shell? I cannot tell if there was a usual practice. Bourne cars seemed to have less paint, also the 26R?
But the real question is just how much of the shell was painted and where? Paint is weight, after all!
John
It is easy to see how people paint their car 26R or GTS today--anything goes!
It is far more difficult to see how the original cars were finished. Most of the photos are black and white. Very few show details such as inside the wheel wells, underneath, engine compartment, boot, stripped interior, overspray, etc. And I suppose the cars came to the owners by different routes. Some appear to be repurposed production shells. Some appear to have typical flairs, others are a bit different. So it seems a guy could have acquired a new 26R complete with factory paint as per production car, complete with paint with modified shell, complete in primer, kit with either paint or primer, or perhaps in unassembled kit with bare shell? I cannot tell if there was a usual practice. Bourne cars seemed to have less paint, also the 26R?
But the real question is just how much of the shell was painted and where? Paint is weight, after all!
John