Correct finish for air box clips, Air box clip finish Options

[TonyA]

What is the correct finish on the AIR box clips? Cad plated or black paint?

[wonkipop]

mine is a match for starbear's.

like his car is orignal. the box has never been out. even when i converted to right hand drive. it stayed in position un-molested.
car is 01/74 1.8. late jan. a few weeks before the first of the LEs went down the line.







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and a few more examples from the L jet files.

this one is a march 74.



this one is a may 74.



looks like they are the same as starbear and my cars. this covers the time span the LEs were produced. feb 74 until whenever it was. april or may?


EDIT - i had time to go out and have a close look at the car.

the silver finish is i believe aged cadmium where the cadmium has all but disappeared or oxidised (silver metal with white powderish spots). similar to the front struts plates these day. i can remember when the front strut plates were still cadmium plated back in 89 when i got the car. these days, 35 years later the cadmium has all turned to silver/white splotches too. i think i can just see traces of the cadmium finish on some of the clips. so i would go for cadmium as what my car had.