[DeTomaso] Paint Colors

[Patrick Hals]

The original color of the Bang & Olufsen Bernard De Dryver Group 3 ( 5006 ) was green too.
Patrick
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Zeedick 
  To: MikeLDrew at aol.com ; JDeRyke at aol.com ; bob at dodgecarroll.com ; detomaso at realbig.com 
  Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Paint Colors



  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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