TR2/3/3A TR3 splash guards... body color or black?

[jwolff]

Should the splash guards in the inner front fenders be left black or painted body color? thanks

 

[Tr3aguy]

I can't see how anyone would ever know so make it what looks best to you...

 

[jwolff]

good point JP, I guess it is hard to see once the fenders are on and the car is on the ground.

 

[sd80mac7204]

Black was usually original

 

[M_Pied_Lourd]

jw,

Painted mine black and then coated them with rocker guard.

Cheers,
Tush

 

[jwolff]

great idea, thanks for the advice.

 

[Tr3aguy]

Where are the pictures....????

 

[jwolff]

Hey JP,
I just emailed you a couple of photos but they are quite dark. I'll post some soon once I get better ones.

 

[Tr3aguy]

Looking good....You should be on the road by spring.

 

[mallard]

Mine were body color on my 56 and that's what I went with.

 

[Don Elliott]

The bodys were painted at Mulliners in Birmingham where they made and assembled the bodies before shipping the paiinted bodys to S-T in Canley. So I assume that they would have been body colour. In all the concours shows I've been to at TRA nad VTR, they have been body colour.

Mine are black. But that's because my 1958 TR3A is black.

 

[jwolff]

Good info... I'll paint them body color while the fenders are off. Thanks

 

[luke44]

I went black....because I liked the look. Originals on my car were unpainted...

 

[mallard]

Make sure you get overspray on the rubber seals (just kidding). If you had a Corvette they would deduct points when judged, maybe even Austin Healey.

 

[Chuck Murphy]

Hi all.This is an old thread but I am at this point in my restoration of a 1957 TR3 and have a question on the color of the inner fender splash guards. I am going to use body color which I think is the way the factory painted them. But, my question is if Mulliners painted them body color - what of the rubber?? Was it also paintred body color, or did Mulliners paint the spash guards off the car and then add the rubber without paint, before assembling the guards onto the car? Chuck

 

[CJD]

I'm pretty sure this thread determined they were black, like the seal. But, like JP pointed out, they don't show unless you remove the wheel to look.