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MG TD TF 1500 - hood frame

I stripped off the paint from the hood frame.
Interesting part of archive. 6 different layers. Starting from metal : grey, black, green, red, dark beige and light beige.
I know the car was orginally red, 1953. What was the original color of the frame ?

Also I discovered a small hole and a dowel on the upper part of the vertical stanchion. Same thing on both sides.
What was it for ?

Laurent.

LC Laurent31

Laurent,

These two holes are for a rubber buffer. I pulled the attached photo from the NTG parts site.

John

J Scragg

Laurent,

I believe light beige is the correct answer.

Jim
James Neel

I used RAL 1019 as the best fit with the tan hood material (double duck from Moss). With black hoods, many people use black paint for the frame.

I found one of the rubber buffers on the frame but decided to omit them because I could not see the need.

Rgds Mike
Mike Fritsch

Laurent

Take a swatch sample of the color of the hood you will be installing and bring it to your paint supplier or wherever you buy paints over the counter.

The frame should closely match the color of the hood.

Frank

TF1414

Frank Cronin

The vendors carry the frame paint
W A Chasser

Thanks guys.
Are these buffers used to protect the sidscreen when the hood is up or to protect the frame when the hood is down ?

Laurent.
LC Laurent31

I think I got this from Chris Cooper a long time ago.


PJ Jennings

You might be able to look up the color from an old formula here. Note the TD and TF used slightly different colors.

https://www.mg-cars.org.uk/mgtd/mgtd_finishes.htm#formulas

https://www.mg-cars.org.uk/mgtf/mgtf_finishes.htm#formulas
Christopher Couper

Laurent,

The TF frame colour depicted on the frame of TF9052
is quite different compared to the colour chip listed
on 'The Original MGTF Midget' site which has a more 'pinkish' hue. I favour the quite original TF9052 car
hood frame colour.

The TF hood frame(s) original colour certainly faded
with exposure to sunlight giving rise to the 'pinkish' inclusion.

BTW, the original hood cloth underside was quite different in colour compared to the outside,top cloth colour.

Of course,Factory paint colours varied possibly from batch to batch!

Cheers
Rob Grantham
TF3079("Aramis"),TF9177)"Athos").
Rob Grantham

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