[Healeys] Fw: Color poll please

Richard Korn rkorn at simnet.is
Sat Apr 12 03:54:55 MDT 2008


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Korn" <rkorn at simnet.is>
To: "Jim Culp" <jculpjr at yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Color poll please


> Jim,
>
> I have to agree with" Mr. Bill" that blue for a 100 and GMB for the BJ8 
> are
> the best colors.I saw a lot of Healeys at the conclave in Vermont and 
> found
> that the golden BJ84s were by far the classiest looking of them all.Also
> being a purist,You have got one of 533 original GBM cars and it would be a
> shame to change it.
>
> attached is a recent restoration a friend did here in the north of Iceland
> of an XK120 in the original Opalescent Sand.It4s impossible to describe
> really how great this color looks on a sunny day.
>
> Richard
> BN2
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Culp" <jculpjr at yahoo.com>
> To: <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 6:25 PM
> Subject: [Healeys] Color poll please
>
>
>> For those who have seen Golden Beige Metallic in the metal, is it ugly?
>>
>> The reason for my question is that I'm restoring my '67 BJ8 which
>> originally came from the factory in GBM, but the prior owner saw fit to
>> paint the car silver with black coves, so all I have to go by are the
>> scattered remnants of gold hidden in various parts of the car and it's
>> very difficult to get an idea of the color as a whole.  I have seen
>> pictures online, but I'm not sure if those pictures are an accurate
>> representation of the color in real life.
>>
>> I was going to use the Lexus gold, but the wife doesn't like it.  Then I
>> was settled on Jaguar "Winter Gold" but I've decided that there is too
>> much green in that particular color.  According to a couple of Healey
>> folks I've spoken with, true GBM is dull and quite ugly.  Is this really
>> the case?
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