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Steering Arm Colors

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Back in 2009 I posted about finding green paint on the steering arm of a Bugeye of a friend. I now have that car and am re-assembling. The Whitephrog that I previously restored clearly had yellow steering arms originally. The springs on the Whitephrog had a leaf green stripe down the side of the spring from top to bottom. The steering arms on the car I am now restoring seem to have been painted that same leaf green originally. Thoughts from this learned group?
 

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Was looking up something else in the Horler Original Sprite and Midget book, and came across this:

"From HAN7-28369 and GAN2-18473 (February 1963), the steering arms were revised and marked with a line of green or white paint to identify them from the superseded steering arms"
 
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