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Finish of fuel tanks on early cars
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 10:26 am
by MonkeyChap
Hello
It looks like I'm going to have to replace the tank in my car (backdated 3.2 Carrera). Although it'll have to be a 3.2 tank, I might as well make it look like an early one. Are they painted or do they just go straight in the car in the black primer finish ? Presumably they have stone-chip underneath ?
Ta
Ian
Re: Finish of fuel tanks on early cars
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 7:28 pm
by hot66
Depends what year ? Eg mine is a plastic tank in the textured light grey
Re: Finish of fuel tanks on early cars
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 8:06 pm
by MonkeyChap
Thanks - sounds like the grey Schutz finish was used in the 70s and 80s cars so I'll go with that.
Re: Finish of fuel tanks on early cars
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 11:47 pm
by Flat 6
There is a grey 2-pack 3M stonechip that comes in a bag with components separated but are then mixed in the bag and applied using a schutz gun. I think it's a very good match. Used it on my '78 and it looked identical to my '73 which I believe is unrestored.
I believe it's this one.
https://www.3m.co.uk/3M/en_GB/company-u ... 324&rt=rud
Re: Finish of fuel tanks on early cars
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 5:16 pm
by MonkeyChap
Thanks - the link seems to be dead, but I googled around and found this:
https://www.spraygunsdirect.co.uk/index ... ZhJfQ.dpbs
Is that the same stuff ?
Re: Finish of fuel tanks on early cars
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 6:00 pm
by 914-6
I used a Wurth product- spay it very dry and from a distance.
-looks good to me.
cheers
Ian