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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Idris wrote: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 ?.

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

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