« Reply #23 on: September 05, 2014, 06:56:06 pm »
Rear lights are indeed silver and were originally painted rather poorly. Easy to improve on that. The master cylinder cover is commonly painted black but I think in the 175 was grey to match the leading edge of the vinyl on the seat and grey coated millboard interior panels. The steering column and such not being black either in this case. The seat itself would be vinyl and rexene for very early cars, giving way to a sort of cross hatched cloth in a background weave, not dissimilar to the Nobel but of more muted hues, to match the body colour. It would think your car would use this as would mine being near crossover to 200cc. It was NOT tartan. My own car has optional extra Lizard skin interior, a bit of an acquired taste but it goes with the other bling on the car.
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