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blue paint on 72 oil tank?
With the driver's side rear quarter panel coming together on my 72 Kremer S-T tribute project car, I moved to the passenger's side today. Took out the oil tank. If it hasn't been in there since its manufacture, it's been there many years...mucho grime/caked on mud, surface rust, and the mandatory mouse nest...
Interesting thing was the flaking but partially intact paint on the tank was baby blue. Anyone seen this color paint on an oil tank from the factory? Last edited by 70SWT; 05-29-2010 at 11:18 PM.. |
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05-29-2010, 11:03 PM
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Nope....original on my '72 was black.
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05-29-2010, 11:21 PM
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since the steel tank was copper plated I'll bet the color you are seeing is the corroded copper. hopefully that copper layer is still mostly intact.
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05-30-2010, 04:07 AM
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Yeah, the 2 previous 72s I've owned have also had black-painted tanks.
This was definitely blue paint coming off in sheets, not the greenish corrosion copper gets. Given how long its clearly been in place, the intact plastic cushion discs that look like they've never moved, etc, perhaps it was replaced decades ago. Or maybe that's just the color paint Hans and Franz had on hand at the factory when the car was made. I've see all kinds of interesting one-off touches on these cars. Would be interesting to see if someone has a NOS tank to check its color. Probably unobtainium. |
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05-30-2010, 05:42 AM
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