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by OldSkrote - 31/07/25 02:07 PM
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The windscreen brackets on my Roadster have a very shiny grey lacquered appearance. I had no reason to think this wasn't standard, but over the last five years, every Roadster I've examined has had dull flat grey A posts. I began to suspect that mine had been 'refinished' and last night I had a much closer look. They have been carefully masked and blown over on the car with some sort of acrylic lacquer. The give-away is under the bottom windscreen rubber, where the finish is dull and grey. So there you have it. Another riddle solved.
DaveW
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Interesting - today I was reseaching how to polish mine up to make them "brighter"...
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Not done under my ownership Dave and the previous owner did not declare it as an "improvement" , the first owner I believe was as a Dealer Demonstrator so it may have been a factory finish.
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I wonder if Gill's did it then. It's a very hard lacquer, and I've never seen another like it............
DaveW
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Dave, my roadster mk 1 had (has....ish) the glossy paint laquer.shiny grey.
By the time the car was a year old it was all coming off with white corrosion under it....aluminium I suppose. The factory sent me a new pair (also painted) under warranty and I have them in a drawer ready to fit if I have a new windscreen, or ready for the new owner should I sell the car one day.
My guess is that the factory got fed up with the problem and just stopped painting them.
Nick
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Dave , I must get over to see the Red Roadster in my shiny new Red VW :-) I'm sure it's in excellent condition.
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It's made me think....I must go and dig out my replacements and see if they are corroding merrily in dry storage.....
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Andy - Providing you give me a bit of notice.............
DaveW
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Gills in Bedale stopped selling Morgans a couple of years ago, and is currently being demolished...
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They gave up on Morgans a while ago. As Andy said, my Roadster was their demo and they couldn't shift it. It appeared in Miscellany for months, it's part of the history file.
I contacted them in 2008 to ask if they had any documentation from the factory order stage but they didn't have the decency to reply.
DaveW
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