Idle thought
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Idle thought
Too much time on my hands (as if!)?
Why are the sills black on all BXs - (16v excluded)? Has anyone painted their BX's in body colour? I would have thought it's make the car look like it was sitting a bit lower. I guess I could Photoshop something to see.
Why are the sills black on all BXs - (16v excluded)? Has anyone painted their BX's in body colour? I would have thought it's make the car look like it was sitting a bit lower. I guess I could Photoshop something to see.
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Told you my thinking was idle!
Pointless thread really. Sorry.
Unless anyone can answer this question: I have seen a picture of a bright yellow Mk 1 BX at the time of it's launch with colour-coded (to use the rather odd vernacular) window frames and so on - and It might have had coloured sills too. It might have been a prototype, don't know. I must say, without the ubiquitous black window frames it looked dumpy.
Were any models launched with this level of 'colour-coding'?
Pointless thread really. Sorry.
Unless anyone can answer this question: I have seen a picture of a bright yellow Mk 1 BX at the time of it's launch with colour-coded (to use the rather odd vernacular) window frames and so on - and It might have had coloured sills too. It might have been a prototype, don't know. I must say, without the ubiquitous black window frames it looked dumpy.
Were any models launched with this level of 'colour-coding'?
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AFAIK the early Leader special edition had no colour coding on the window frames. However, it did have a two-tone paint job which helped break up the colour a little. Personally I prefer BX's with the black window surrounds, but that said, the Leaders' lack of them do make them look a little more modern, and a little more fresh, in my view.
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And there I was thinking the reason was to try and disguise the relatively old fashioned door construction - with separate frames rather than the skin extending to the roof and making the top frame like a Renault 21 or a ZX.
This then comes down to the engineering question of how to make and fit the window glass flush or near with the bodywork.
This then comes down to the engineering question of how to make and fit the window glass flush or near with the bodywork.
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