Re: [VAL] White Roof

[Dillonvdill@xxxxxxx]

This is a real brain tease.  Shiny aluminum is supposed to reflect the sun 
and heat like a mirror,  but since I removed the oxidation and polished and 
shined my '58  Overlander,  it gets unbarebly hot up here in the Pacific Northwest 
when its just 70o outside.  I have an old Caravan picture from the late 
fifties and half of the trailers had white roofs.  My first A/S  a 1956 Overlander 
that had been on the 1959  African Caravan,  had a white roof that was fading 
and peeling.  I got it because it was cheap but my was it ugly.  I took it 
down to Mexico and had it stripped and polished for $200.  Back in the late 
forties,  The airlines started painting the roofs of their previously polished bare 
aluminum planes, because they found that they became ovens when sitting on 
the ground.
Vanessa