[Healeys] Non Standard Colours

[Rich C]

During the "normal" production situation, the car bodies were assembled for 
complete body panel fit, then painted in the usual available production 
colours on a paint line at Jensen Bros.

What was done at Warwick would have been a "special order" which in the big 
picture did not happen very often. And, as you proved out, these occasions 
were documented as such. Therefore, when we Concours judges are about to 
commence judging a car, we first ask the owner if he/she can tell us 
anything different or unique about this particular car. In this case, it 
would be absolutely a perfect case to bring out the Heritage certificate 
stating same, and it would most certainly be allowed without deduction.

An interesting thing about this car being despatched to Warwick in 
"undercoat" meaning a primer only. Was the car missing the outer paint 
colour in most of the inner areas? Warwick would not likely have rceived a 
bare shell to finish, but probably a partially built car, therefore they 
wouldn't /couldn't paint the complete inner structure which would have 
already had mechanical and trim bits installed before it got there.

Automotive history and archaeology again, eh?

Rich Chrysler



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <sebring at illawarra.hotkey.net.au>
To: <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 10:18 PM
Subject: [Healeys] Non Standard Colours


> First question to be addressed is; when is the car factory painted?
> A friend has a very dark blue that is not on the brochures or official 
> list.
> Many people advised him to correct this greatly inaccurate feature of his
> otherwise very original BJ.7. John resisted all efforts to influence him 
> to
> repaint to original as wherever he looked there was never a sign of any 
> other
> colour having been applied. John requested a Heritage Certificate and was
> extremely satisfied with the answer. His car was definitely not a 
> production
> line colour.The certificate stated " the car was despatched to the Donald
> Healey Motor Co in undercoat" and obviously painted to the customer's 
> requested
> choice of colour. So was John's car factory or factory painted? I believe 
> that
> almost anything was available as an order from your dealer as long as the
> request was readily available at the time,the purchaser had the time to 
> wait
> and was prepared to wait.
> Remember there was a set of homologation papers submitted for performance
> improvements which were required to be available to the public upon 
> request of
> the part numbers. eg webers,4 wheel discs. alloy panels etc Basically that 
> is
> how the LeMans kit came about.For Sprites one of the options was a Travel
> Rug.In Australia these were called 'struggle rugs' very popular options
> Joe
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