Restoration of Canadian Scout Car Ford Lynx I, Mk.III No.1726

[Mike Cecil]

Rick,

From my previous post....

"You probably explained this somewhere back along this thread, but what made you choose Light Stone/Portland Stone as the chassis topcoat? Is that the colour you will use throughout?"

Best regards

Mike

[lynx42]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Rick,

From my previous post....

"You probably explained this somewhere back along this thread, but what made you choose Light Stone/Portland Stone as the chassis topcoat? Is that the colour you will use throughout?"

Best regards

Mike

Hi Mike, Check post #14.for photos etc.

During the strip down, the original sandy yellow colour appeared under fittings which had not been removed or exposed to the sun and rain since the day they were made.

Here is the colour under the lifting ring on the left front.

Inside the left locker was a small bracket bolted to the bin side. After removal the original colour was found, unchanged from the day it was painted.
There were two basic colours used for the finished coats, either this sand colour for the desert and green for Europe etc.

A decision was made to paint the whole vehicle in this desert sandy colour as it was visible all over the whole vehicle. I took 4 or 5 bits to the local paint shop and had them computer match the colour for me. It is still a bit shiny, but a few days in the sun will soon fix that.

You can see here in this photo, (thanks Peter Duggan) that there were two finish coats. Desert Sand and Green. There are about 140 Lynxes in this photo with the green ones in the background.

The sand colour was over painted with both green and that blue I mentioned before.

Regards Rick.

[Mike Cecil]

Thanks Rick, good job.

Pity we couldn't decipher more than the Formation sign, but the probability (possibility?) is it was serving with 1AR 'pre-Ferret'.

Mike