Engine/Chassis colour?

[garyeanderson]

This morning I took some pictures of the chassis color and the chassis gearbox cross member. I got the area under the saddle and the top of the gearbox cross member as I fiured these would not have fadded badly and may be close to "original". I plan to go up to the MontaguB Brown (PPG supplier) as they have a camera that will give them a formula, I would like to bring the chassis but I am too lazy (or sore) from moving the other on Monday so I though I would bring the cross member and see what they could do. If they couldn't help with their camera I was just going to get black as its cheaper to buy and looks good to me. Anyway as I look at the cross member and the chassis they look to be different colors and well, "does it really matter at all" Seem like a re-run but not many photos in this topic, just talk and I can't see talk. Here are a few and there are more that I posted in sow ear topic and still more in this topic
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still more
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This is the chassis that has yet to be sand blasted

I took these pictures 4 weeks before the chassis went to Bills to be welded, they were taken with the sun out an no flash unlike the photos above.

Anyway this topic seems to come up a lot and after 13 years of this forum being around I don't think I remember seeing a paint code for it, maybe this will change but maybe not. I guess its just about the talk

Gary

[Sea Ranch]

Gary, thanks for posting these pics of frame colour. I presume it's more like the red of the lower pics than the orange of the first pics.

Personally, I'm not fond of the factory "primer/oxide" red; clashes with many of the body colours. I much prefer a nice silver grey like the steel wheels; that's the colour metal should be!

But alas, if one goes to the effort to rebuild, you have to think carefully, I suppose, about painting the frame something other than factory colour . . .

Still thinking . . .

[Bud English]

What are the odds that year after year Lotus used the same color paint on the chassis, engines, gearboxes and every other mostly hidden parts of the car? They sure changed up other parts depending on what was at hand when the build time came.

Just saying...

[garyeanderson]

What are the odds that year after year Lotus used the same color paint on the chassis, engines, gearboxes and every other mostly hidden parts of the car? They sure changed up other parts depending on what was at hand when the build time came.

Just saying...

None, but a lot of it is similar and with several hundred folks here one could get a close approximation. If folks were serious about answering any of the questions that are asked many times over on this forum, that info could be Archived some place and with a sticky link be readily available. Seems that is not what any one here wants anyway.

I picked out the chassis color yesterday. I would have to bring the chassis to them for a camera code to be generated and its not that important to me, I picked one of the cheapest paints they had as thats what this latest project is, I have done the expensive ones before and they drive about the same. Show queens are for some other people and right now I am about building up hard driving two bit whore this time around.

Ye haw

Gary

[cabc26b]

Gary -

take a look at PPG DP74LF epoxy primer tinted to look like red oxide - tough stuff , non reactive with the goo that leaks out of old lotus ( loti ? )

not happy you made me sign on to leave this - get off your dam phone ...