70b grit spreader, black base

[nickjones]

70b Ford grit spreader with black baseplate, I'm not sure if this has been recorded before?

[ChFalkensteiner]

This does not really look factory-painted to me but more like some private addition. However, it is never easy to judge this just from pictures on the web.

[nickjones]

I'm sure I have seen this variation before but I don't know where from

[ChFalkensteiner]

I have had these pictures on my disk since 2005:





I think I downloaded them from MCCH back then, but I do not remember who posted them. I do know I had as many doubts about this "variation" then as I have now.

[Idris]

We discussed either this or a similar example on the old Forum. Opinions fell into two camps. The first was prepared to accept that a thin layer of black paint had been applied whilst the second preferred to regard the discolouration as the result of some kind of non-factory tarnishing of the unpainted baseplate.

[sammynose]

hi nick ,i dont remember but i know i posted something with a black base before it might have been this model .
larry c. in n y

[sammynose]

hi nick just checked my saved pics and it was me who posted one of these with the same black base .it was some time ago .
larry c. in ny

[nickjones]

We discussed either this or a similar example on the old Forum. Opinions fell into two camps. The first was prepared to accept that a thin layer of black paint had been applied whilst the second preferred to regard the discolouration as the result of some kind of non-factory tarnishing of the unpainted baseplate.

If I'm not mistaken, didn't the gloss black replace the flat black as used on the baseplates before this model was produced ?.

[sammynose]

ok nick would that make this model a pre-pro then ?

[nickjones]

Hi sammy.
I can't really say simply because I have never handled one