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Old August 24th, 2018, 07:53 AM
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Jack color ??

What's the proper tire jack color scheme for a 1970 442 ?? Thanks-----Greg
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Old August 24th, 2018, 08:20 AM
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I suspect it depends upon which manufacture of jack you have. With my '68 and '69 4-4-2 convertibles, I have two of the 4 different brands of jacks that were offered for those years. My '68 jack (Lansing car) is a grey color whereas my '69 jack (a Fremont car) is black.

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Car is a Lansing build---W-30.
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Old August 25th, 2018, 01:55 PM
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Jack Colour

As far as Lansing built 1970 vehicle Jacks are concerned, Federal Grey is a great match to the originals.
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Old August 25th, 2018, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by rcorrigan5
I suspect it depends upon which manufacture of jack you have. With my '68 and '69 4-4-2 convertibles, I have two of the 4 different brands of jacks that were offered for those years. My '68 jack (Lansing car) is a grey color whereas my '69 jack (a Fremont car) is black.

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I've seen this also, lansing gray, fremont black

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Old August 25th, 2018, 03:11 PM
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As far as Lansing built 1970 vehicle Jacks are concerned, Federal Grey is a great match to the originals.
if this is the plasticoat T-37 federal gray, imo it wasn't that close. now I was comparing to a 69. grays could have changed in 70, stranger things have happened.

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For my 70 442 I used Dove Gray and it looks great.
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Old August 26th, 2018, 08:32 AM
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Here are the jacks for my Lansing '68 (gray) and Fremont '69 (black) 4-4-2 convertibles. I should point out that, with the black jack (the base was also black), the cradle was still gray. I don't know if the different assembly plants used one of the four different jack suppliers, or if it was simply whatever was available at the time. You can clearly see that these two jacks are different in the way the vertical post is designed. The bases for each jack are different as well, built to accommodate the post.

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