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PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 11:36 am 
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Original colour ,was it silver or light gold in colour, cad plating ? & best place to buy a kit.thanks


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 1:30 pm 
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Light gold for the VH44. Silver for the earlier Lockheed unit.

Photo below of a nicely restored MK II Cooper S engine bay showing the booster.

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 3:43 pm 
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I don't have any unrestored VH44 but I think they were silver zinc. All my rebuilt ones are in silver zinc to be as close as possible to the originals.
I remember the PBR ones looked different from the Mk1 Lockheeds.


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 3:58 pm 
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winabbey wrote:
Light gold for the VH44. Silver for the earlier Lockheed unit.

Photo below of a nicely restored MK II Cooper S engine bay showing the booster.

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Thanks for that photo Winabbey :-)
It answers a couple of questions I had.
Could you advise the year or body number of the photoed Cooper S?
Cheers.


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PostPosted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 9:27 am 
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The MK1 Lockheed boosters came in 2 different colours/treatments.
Early ones were finished in a silver blue colour and later ones were in a light gold colour.
I don't know when the change occurred but a 66 build date Mk1 S I had new was in the silver blue finish and my current 68 build had the light gold finish.
I recently had this booster rebuilt and even after telling the repairer that I wanted the light gold colour finish it came back in the silver blue colour.
Not impressed one little bit!

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 7:19 am 
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Firefirey wrote:
Could you advise the year or body number of the photoed Cooper S?
Cheers.

Pretty sure it is a mid-1970 model. Very nice restoration done by a guy down here in Melbourne.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 9:40 am 
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Thanks fellas,looks like gold, with a possible silver -blue dependt on year. Milano.


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:53 am 
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The PBR VH44 replaced the Lockheed booster on the MK II Cooper S at car YG2S4-1614 in March 1970. If anyone has a colour photo of an original engine bay around that time it would help answer the colour question.

My understanding is all VH44's were gold passivated, but happy to be corrected.

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