1850 sill colour ?

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1850 sill colour ?

#1 Post by MIG Wielder »

What colour were the sills painted on an original 1977 1850 please ?
Mine are currently in matt black but I am advised they should be in body colour !

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Pretty sure body colour is normal for 1850 sills of any vintage, the black sills were only on the halo model Sprint!

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Re: 1850 sill colour ?

#3 Post by yorkshire_spam »

1850HL promotional brochure shows a car with black sills. Binny (1973 Dolomite) had black sills when James dragged her out of the shed she was found in.
Neither is a definitive answer though!
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yorkshire_spam wrote: Thu Nov 02, 2023 8:48 pm 1850HL promotional brochure shows a car with black sills. Binny (1973 Dolomite) had black sills when James dragged her out of the shed she was found in.
Neither is a definitive answer though!
Yes, I thought that the 1850 HLs had the chrome cill strip with black paint below. I've certainly got pictures of brand new mid-late seventies models with this arrangement.
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Carledo wrote: Thu Nov 02, 2023 7:06 pm Pretty sure body colour is normal for 1850 sills of any vintage, the black sills were only on the halo model Sprint!

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All 1850s and 1850HLs had matt black sills and bootlid/back panel (enclosed by chrome strips) and also black vinyl back quarter panels.
Sprints had all of this plus a vinyl roof.



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Re: 1850 sill colour ?

#6 Post by DoloWIGHTY »

The only Dolomites to have body coloured sills were the Dolomite 1300 and base model Dolomite 1500. All the other models had black sills.
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#7 Post by Carledo »

My mistake, just checked the pics of Bumpa's highly original 77/8 1850HL and the sills are black below the bright moulding!

I can't say if this changed after the late 78 sill moulding delete (this happened from Sprint comm number VA30000> but don't have a number for the 1850) Sprints kept the black bit, but it seems to cover the entire sill on these late cars.

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