[Healeys] factory numbers, etc.

[Alan Seigrist]

I have a factory gold seal A90 gearbox with about 5K miles on it ...
Hen's teeth!!!!



On 10/21/07, Simon Lachlan <simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk> wrote:
> Yes,
> I never saw one that wasn't gold.
> When I was a kid(?) we all had pretty dodgy motors, mostly minis, and we
> used to put Gold(coloured)seal engines in them as and when we blew the
> originals. Usually put in bigger engines than we started with.
> My 3000's gearbox is a) gold and b) has a plate on it to the effect that
> it's a genuine rebuilt item. But I can't remember if it's a factory Goldseal
> without looking at it.
> Simon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces+simon.lachlan=homecall.co.uk at autox.team.net
> [mailto:healeys-bounces+simon.lachlan=homecall.co.uk at autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of John Harper
> Sent: 21 October 2007 11:55
> To: Alan Seigrist
> Cc: healeys
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] factory numbers, etc.
>
> Alan
>
> I was based at BMC Service Cowley for a while in the early 1960s and can
> be 99.9% certain that Gold Seal Engines were exactly that. To have not
> painted them gold would have caused utter confusion.
>
> Regards
>
> >James -
> >
> >A few very early 100s had their engines painted a marine grey/blue
> >color, and if I'm not mistaken factory replacement "gold seal" engines
> >often were blue in color.
> >
> >Alan
> >
> >On 10/20/07, James  Shope <healeymanjim at hansencc.net> wrote:
> >> does anyone know for certain whether the factory ever painted the
> >> engine/transmission/od a blue color, and if not, why would a restoration
> shop
> >> do it?   healeymanjim
> >_______________________________________________
> >ah at jharper.demon.co.uk
> >
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> --
> John Harper
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-- 
Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'64 BJ8