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Re: Different Healey Engine 3000 colors?

To: Rich C <richchrysler@quickclic.net>
Subject: Re: Different Healey Engine 3000 colors?
From: 57 Healey <57healey@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:36:19 -0600
So the BN4 motor should be the Olive Green instead of Healey Engine Green?

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:59:16 -0500, Rich C <richchrysler@quickclic.net> wrote:
> When the all new 100/Six was introduced in late summer 1956 the six cylinder
> engines were a Morris product, built and assembled at the Morris Engines
> Plant. These engines quite logically were painted "Morris Engine Green", the
> dark olive colour, same as the early Sprite engines. This dark green colour
> remained it seems through at least the early spring of 1958, well after the
> Healey final assemby had been moved from Longbridge to Abingdon in fall of
> '57. 
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