[DeTomaso] Paint Colors

[John Zeedick]

All:

>From the way it sounds the "Lime" green color was not as rare as it seems.
During my search for my car I visited Ken Brown who lives near me in PA. He
had a "Lime" green car in his shop that he was working on. He said the color
was rare. How rare was it?

John"original color Green (the color close to British racing green)" Z

On 5/28/08 6:37 PM, "MikeLDrew at aol.com" <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:

> 
> In a message dated 5/28/08 11:37:41 AM, JDeRyke at aol.com writes:
> 
> 
>> DeTomaso was never accused of using primer anywhere on the car! The welded,
>> unpainted bodies were trucked 250 miles south from Vignale & stored outside
>> in
>> Modena, still unpainted, and many seem to have been painted in spite of
>> being
>> lightly rusted. This happened before any assembly, thus nearly the entire
>> body- inside & out- was painted, or at least got color-overspray.
>> 
> 
> All body assembly and paintwork was done at Vignale.   An excellent primer
> coat was applied before the equally excellent paint.   Anybody who has ever
> had 
> to strip a stock paint job to bare metal knows the extensive work required!
> The painted bodies were then trucked to Modena for drivetrain installation and
> final assembly.
> 
> It is true that for a period of time, unpainted bodies were allowed to sit
> outside at Vignale; when my '72 was stripped, they found it had light surface
> rust under the primer, on the lower rear valance.
> 
> Mike
> 
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