[Healeys] 100M Engine Bay Paint Color

[Tadeusz Malkiewicz]

I will (hopefully) start work on the car this winter - I will take pictures
ten. For now, I just scraped a little bit of black overspray in the engine
bay to discover the original white color..

Will let you know once I have the photos!

BTW - the car is red now (it was painted in '83, but I checked the dash: the
dash was white, and I believe the oval instrument panel was also white,
unless someone has sanded the silver/gray paint..

Tadek
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From: Curt/Nancy Arndt [mailto:cnaarndt at gmail.com]
Sent: 14 pa<dziernika 2008 00:53
To: Tadeusz Malkiewicz
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] 100M Engine Bay Paint Color

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Tadeusz Malkiewicz
<tadeusz.malkiewicz at plusnet.pl> wrote:

Any idea why some were painted white and some black??..

Tadek,

That is the $64,000 question.  No, we don't know why some were black and
some remained body color. 

Please document your original engine bay color in pictures and send me the
photos as I would like to add this evidence to my collection. 

I have personally seen BN2's painted both ways and a number of OEW BN1's
with the black engine bays however I still need photographic documentation
of the early white cars without the black engine compartment if anyone has
photos.

Curt