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| Author: | timmy201 [ Mon Dec 28, 2015 9:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Green Engine Paint |
At what stage of Australian production did the engines change from the UK "BMC Green" to the metallic green? Would it be around the same time as the engines were starting to be assembled here and stamped with the 8Y engine numbers? Or was it when the Deluxe/Cooper S were introduced? |
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| Author: | AJ [ Tue Dec 29, 2015 7:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Green Engine Paint |
I would say it would have been with the introduction of the Aussie content and 8Y engine numbers ,my 850 is a very early 1965 and has the metallic green engine with the dark green underneath visible in a few places ,and the Aussie bootlid with short flap .....(owned by old lady driven on Sundays to church) |
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| Author: | timmy201 [ Fri Jan 01, 2016 4:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Green Engine Paint |
Mine still has the long number plate, but it did have the 8Y engine (the Y is stamped from the front, so possibly around the changeover time?). I'm not sure what colour it would have been? |
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| Author: | Hunter2 [ Sun Jan 03, 2016 6:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Green Engine Paint |
Good match between what little clean Sherwood Green Metallic paint on the 1973 1098 power unit and a FORD Lime Gold, sounds odd but it looks to be a very close. |
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