From: Roy Dougill [email protected]
Date: 21 Feb 2002
Time: 05:44:50
Remote Name: 195.93.32.168
My Ruby was originally Westminster green and I found that the tool box and battery box under the bonnet had traces of this colour under all the other paint. Whether this was overspray (hard to believe), or part of the original colour scheme I'm not sure. The rest of the under bonnet area was black. I have always been led to believe that all under bonnet areas should and would have been black. Surely the brake back plates and tank would not have been body colour. Were the out of sight areas (under bonnet, tank etc.) not painted first? I would think that someone has restored the car and subsequently painted the brake back plates and such like body colour.