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That looks to me to be part of the repaint green - I see the same colour on the brake fluid reservoir, and it is not credible that this would ever have come from the factory anything except basic black or possibly unpainted tinplate.
John
Hello John,Quote:
Originally Posted by JDNSW
Got your point. So for now I have three options left for the chassis make over
1) Rust removal then paint the color in black
2) Rust removal, gavalnize and leave the color like that
3) Rust removal, gavalize and paint the color in black
:):):)
Mate, have a read of the Grey Ghost's thread
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/series-ii-...w-project.html
There are other threads of course, but his is the one I'm reading at the moment and it details how he's gone about restoring his Landy. There's a loooot of detail but among it, it describes how he cleaned up and painted the chassis.
Basically - clean, scrub all the rust and paint off (he shows the tools he uses), prime, paint.
Great images. Lots of Landies in that shop. Are they LandRover specialists?
Keep up the photos, very interesting.
Thanks, Pickles.
I stopped by at the shop this morning. To finalize what I will do on the chassis color. I will sandblasting, Gavalnize, and Powder coating the chassis in green color. As I take a very close look at the chassis, majority part of the chassis has a green color and I don't think that it is a reprint color as the surface is very thin. Besides judging by my eye, I also used the equipment to monitor the thickness of the color at the green color area on the chassis. The result came out with a very low number, something like 50 micron...
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My assumptions to believe that the chassis is painted in green because lathe chassis never been fixed or repaired and there is no reason that the previous owner who repainted the body in blue and put the green on chassis. As the book said 1954 and 1955 is a transition period of the chassis's color, probably the very early 1955 model will have a chassis painted in color that match with the body. Lasting as I mentioned earlier, the measurement number of color's thickness is very low. My assumption could be wrong... But I still have some times before the car is ready for the paint process 😁
If you have a read of my last posts in Wombat's thread, you'll note that I've been cleaning her up and found that my chassis was galvanised, painted yellow, then black on top. Wombat was sold new in Feb 1956 so would have been build in late 1955.
Why the yellow? I don't know. Maybe she'd been earmarked for emergency use then built her up for normal use, maybe that's how they did it. Whatever, I'm not sure you can go making assumptions.