88 Station Wagon Hardtop Colour

[101RRS]

The hardtop on my 88 station wagon is painted white rather than limestone. However my spare hardtop for my basic 88 is limestone.

Can anyone tell me what the colour of the station wagon hardtop should be and when did hardtops more generally change from white to limestone.

Thanks

Garry

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Garry

I thought the Station Wagon hardtops had the same colour as the bodywork with only the tropical roof in the white colour etc.

IMHO the white in the Series 1 and early Series II was Ivory not Limestone.

Diana

[101RRS]

Garry

I thought the Station Wagon hardtops had the same colour as the bodywork with only the tropical roof in the white colour etc.

IMHO the white in the Series 1 and early Series II was Ivory not Limestone.

Diana

Most of the pics I have (including the one on my coffee cup) are as you describe. However some of the pics I have seen have just to roof section/tropical roof white with the sides being body colour where some others have the entire top being white (this is what mine is).

My top is painted in pure white (Old English White in Jag terms) where the other top is not brilliant white but off white (Ivory) similar to series 2s/3s.

Garry

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Garry

Pretty sure that I know what you're suggesting re colour, there has been a variety in colour schemes, sometimes dependant on where the vehicle was assembled and/or parts pressed.

AFAIK all the SI 88 wagons were assembled in the U.K. and would usually have had the U.K. scheme body colour hardtop and roof with white tropical roof. Personally I have not seen an 88" wagon with a white hardtop sides and have thought hard about a white roof without remembering one, except on the non-station wagons. If your 88 was one of the SMHEA vehicles, could it be that the original roof was damaged in service and replaced with a panel modified from a standard hard top? Have you checked under the air vents above the driver to see if they are a machined hole pre painting or a hand done one after painting? This is the only way I could see you having a different colour roof to the tropical roof.

On the white Vs off white there was a change sometime during the SIIa where the original "Ivory" off-white changed to the "limestone" cream colour which continued into the early SIII Camino gold vehicles where the limestone colour included the roof and hardtop side panels. The later SIII Bahama gold vehicles returned to a white or very slightly off-white roof with the hardtop sides coloured in gold.

So the colour I know as "Ivory" was an almost white colour.

[101RRS]

Mine was assembled in Aust as it has a PMC plate etc. It was not a Snowy Car - you looked mine up previously and you indicated it was owned by Anthony Hordens in Sydney - most likely an estate car on their property.

The body has been painted at some stage in sky blue but it is flaking off and the standard swb station wagon grey is underneath as are the wheels. The hard top has also been repainted but there is no evidence of grey under the white but inside the hardtop is grey. The upper panel on the rear door is grey. I guess I will find out for sure when I take the tropical roof off - I doubt they would have removed it to paint the roof. I have pics of a barn find in the US which has all its original interior, seats and fittings - including twin heaters - it has a completely white canopy - the issue is whether it is original or repainted at some stage. Being a station wagon that cost upwards double the cost of a basic swb I suppose variations is colour may have been possible.

However most are body colour - I suspect mine originally looked like this one in Dunfolds collection
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e334/gazzz21/OSA511S1SW.jpg

Cheers

Garry