you got it Greg, every plant used local suppliers for out-sourced bits, and no doubt there was at least slight variation among all the plants for engine color, the factory was producing cheap consumer goods, not concours show trucks, and I doubt any buyer was grousing that the engine color delivered wasn't what was shown in the adverts grin

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics