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That is quite a complicated piece to even attempt to measure up Bob.

Shipping from the UK "will cost you a bob or two" as they say over there but I think you will still be ahead to buy NTGs piece. Have you contacted them? I suspect that they only buy these in to order so the price may vary. https://mgbits.com/contents/en-uk/p8244_Radiator-Support.html

Paul Banyard is extremely...

Something for the future Sir?

If this 'takes off' (😉), everything that's gone before will look pedestrian.


https://youtu.be/3T3F-LNnfMI?si=Uy1WGml8oYzFUJBn

You have got me into nostalgia mode again. When I were a lad I lived in Stanley Road, Thornton Heath, and in the next street Canterbury Road there was a paint factory, B Selier & Co Ltd. They would match any colour in cellulose, all done by eye of course. They produced a fair semblance of Aston Martin metallic green (which they called polychromatic). I had seen an Aston at the Montagu Motor Museum...

Looks like some metallic scrap got caught in there and basically lathed into the pin and then seized it.

No matter how clean you try to get things, sometimes an errant piece finds a home.

The pin is out. First thing was to cut off a bit of the sidewall to get access to the bolt. Even then it needed a thin walled tube spanner to access the bolt because it is so close to the rod. What a miserable design! I will change to allen head bolts when I swap the piston(s).
I had to split the bearing cases in the piston to be able to get some movement from the gudgeon pin. Took a BFH for...

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The V12 BGT was sold in 2020. IDK where it is now.

V8 Frog. Bonkers.
Same bloke apparently has a V12 MGB.
🤣

It seems he's a MASC member; anyone know him?

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=81&t=1894093&i=0

I thought all automotive paint supply shops now have those paint colour matching devices. And they seem pretty accurate to the point that the colour name is pretty irrelevant to the trade unless you are buying at a distance and cannot take the car in to them.
They also use a device that measures the paint film thickness though I have no idea how that works!

This is a fortuitous thread.

I need to match the paint on my uncle's dark blue Spitfire. Passenger door is lighter than the rest.

Anybody know a good place in the south, Croydon/kent?

Cheers.

Laurent, As a Yorkshireman I am cheap, but 75Euros for a complete rebuild kit would be better than trying to buy an individual diaphragm, or rebuild it yourself. Go to the manufacturer www.sucarb.co.uk