'Sugar scoop' colour?

[thegfb]

Regarding early S1 FHC originally LHD cars 'sugar scoops' (as sit in front of the headlamps underneath the glass covers) can anyone advise whether the very early cars had body coloured 'sugar scoops'? If they did any idea from which chassis number these were painted silver?

[1954Etype]

Very early cars body colour, everything else silver.

[thegfb]

Thanks for your response Angus.

My car is a FHC Dec '61 885259 - is this early enough to be body colour do you think?

[Heuer]

Can't lay my hands on a definitive date/chassis number but the body colour sugar scoops seem to have been discontinued during very early production, probably no later than October 1961. Check out www.XKEdata.com and have a look at pictures of cars just earlier/later than yours which may help but I think you will find silver to be correct.

[1954Etype]

As David suggests, look at XKEDATA for the answer. TBH, they are that easy to get to, I'd do them the colour I wanted as its an early car (very difficult to argue what was right and what wasn't on these cars! If you look at a video of Norman Dewis driving an OTS up to the factory door, when they open the bonnet, it is clear that the heater air intake is body colour. I've never seen a car with that!).

[wagstefan]

Officially the body colour scoops were discontinued after the first 500 cars. The chassis numbers of these cars reads as follows:
850001 - 850091
860001 - 860004
875001 - 875385
885001 - 885020

But as always, there might be some exceptions. E.g. 860022 was claimed to have body coloured sugar scoops. But if this is true, nobody knows. Similar to be 100% certain that all 500 cars had body coloured ones or were all outside bonnet latchs. But original guides and the working manuel tell so.....

But 885259 must have been around the 3000th E-Type and therefore I would believe that this car definitely had silver sugar scoops.

I hope that helps.

Good luck. Btw where are you located? Just by chance, are you living in Germany and if so, where?

Regards

Stefan

[andrewh]

is the silver, straight silver or hammered finish? Any idea on the correct shade?

[Dave K]

is the silver, straight silver or hammered finish? Any idea on the correct shade?

My car was built on 23rd Nov '61 (876160) and had the silver scoops from when I got it in March '97. Although the cars exterior had been poorly painted the car was unmolested as far as I could tell. Original ali rad and date tags on the brake master cylinders etc.
My car had non hamered silver scoops.

One item that interests me is the bonnet pulls on my car they had a very strange fasterner that held the chrome cover in place. It was a spring steel arrangement with prongs that clipped into the hole. In the centre of that was an an oddly shaped nut that held the screw in place for the chrome cover.
I suspected that that these had been replaced by a previous owner at some stage but since there were 4 of them (2 in each side) it seems that they might have been original. Not seen anything like them before and would just be interested if your car had them?
Since my car was built after the OSB locks ended but there are screws in the sill where the locks would have been fitted I wondered if it was a stop gap until they sorted it out.
I will have to take a photo of the fasterner and post it.

Dave

[andrewh]

mine had not hammered scoops when I bought it and its pretty unmolested in that sense. I just bought some new scoops from Barratts and they come in a darkish silver hammerite, which is a shame as I am not sure that is correct at all. I would prefer to have them straight silver. If anyone can confirm what they should be before I strip them I would be grateful. Oct 62 car 860897 thanks