[Healeys] Healey Colors

[HealeyRick]

I'm just bringing this up because I can't take any more OEW/IW talk.  When I
was looking to paint my Healey Blue BJ7, (which we all know is really Ice Blue
Metallic) the local paint shop mixed up a batch of ICI BU4 lacquer and sprayed
it out and used their computer color scanner to come up with the base
coat/clear coat PPG formula that was put on the car.  It's a beautiful color
and I'm quite happy with it.  A few weeks ago, I was replacing some of the
original trunk lining and unearthed some Healey Blue panels that haven't seen
the light of day since 1963.  My computer generated color was close, but not
exact.  I wonder if those hidden interior and trunk panels we value so much as
the "original" color looked the same as the color when it was painted on the
car''s exterior  Reason I'm asking is I need to make sure I get all the
Concours points I can with the correct color, because I think I might lose a
few with the 5.0 Ford motor and T5
 transmission.  <VBG>

--- On Fri, 11/13/09, Len and/or Marge Hartnett <thehartnetts at earthlink.net>
wrote:

From: Len and/or Marge Hartnett <thehartnetts at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Healey Colors
To: "Healey Mail List" <healeys at autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 6:47 PM

No. No. Gary:  MY car on the cover of your earlier editions is the correct
blue.  All paint has been matched to a patch of original paint under the
padded dash top and inside the doors that have never seen sunlight.  Mine HAS
to be the correct color blue!!   ;-)

Bigger grin.

(The Other) Len
Vacaville, CA, USA
1967 AH 3000 MkIII, HBJ8L39031


----- Original Message ----- From: <Editorgary at aol.com>
To: <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Healey Colors


> In a message dated 11/13/09 2:05:58 PM, healeys-request at autox.team.net
> writes:
>
>
>> If thre's this much of a fight over white, wait until someone asks for
>> the
>> correct formula for Healey Blue!
>>
>
> There's no real problem: My car is painted Healey Blue and Ivory White, and
> is spot-on correct. Any car   that doesn't match mine (including the two
> other blue/white Healeys on the cover of the earlier editions of our book)
is,
> by definition, incorrect.
> Grins,
> Gary
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