Re: [T3] MiniChamps 1:18 scale Squareback

["joshua brooks" <joshua_bro@msn.com>]

 Yeah my 68 squareback has a black strip at the bottom of the door panels 
about 3 inches wide. I was told they are original door panels and they are 
definitley very old. It would make sense to me to have a black stip at the 
bottom where they will eventually get scuffed up by shoes and whatnot. 
Coincidentally this is why tires are black. If you look at tires on very 
early cars they were white. As you can imagine white tires would get grungy 
looking very quickly so they color them black. Modern tires are still made 
of vulcanized latex rubber wich is white. 

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