[Healeys] frame color

Alan Seigrist healey.nut at gmail.com
Sat Dec 11 23:00:26 MST 2010


Practically speaking this would not make sense since the substructure,
which was welded to the chassis at Jensens, would (by default) need to
be painted body color because of how the whole thing was made.  If the
chassis was black the substructure would have to be black as well.



On 12/12/10, S and T Miller <stmiller96 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Were early 3000's frames ever painted black?- on a non black car?  A 3000 on
> e-bay currently claims that the frame rails being painted black is correct?
> I
> have heard of some early frames being painted black, but thought it was the
> entire frame including engine comp, etc.
>
> The Millers
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> 1957 Austin Healey 100-6 BN4 35299
>
> 1959 Austin Healey 100-6 BN4 77219
>
> 1964 MGB 40841
>
> 1960 Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite AN5 34351
>
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