[Healeys] Atlantic Body Color - Austin Healey Engine Paint

[Curt/Nancy Arndt]

Alan,

This page from the Auto Color Library has 1952 Austin color chips.

http://www.autocolorlibrary.com/default.aspx

Look at ash green on page 3. plus there are several shades of grey.  Also
there  Dove Grey on page 8.  Anyway the charts on pages 9 and 14 may help.

These pages are listing under "ahmg" in the index and I looked at 1951 and
1952.

Cheers,

Curt

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Alan Seigrist <healey.nut at gmail.com> wrote:

> All -
>
> I suspect that John Harper is best suited to answer this question, but
> I'll put it out there.
>
> I own a '51/'52 Atlantic A90 Sports Saloon.  I am in the process of
> stripping it down to paint it.
>
> I have a BMIHT Certificate which only states the car is "Grey" which I
> believe to be "Steel Dust Grey" which was a postwar metallic color
> they used on these cars.
>
> Both inside the heater box and the bulkhead behind the dash seem to
> have the same color which is a soft light metallic green color.  These
> are the areas on an Atlantic that are rarely covered over in a
> respray.
>
> The metallic green behind the dash is particularly telling as it seems
> the original factory rust red primer is peaking just below the
> metallic overspray near the upper parts under the shroud.  It looks
> very much like what I would expect factory overspray to look like, so
> I am pretty sure this is the original color.
>
> The color itself is a light metallic green, very similar in shade to
> the metallic green painted on my  64  BJ8 engine.  It also looks like
>  Seafoam Green" that I ve seen on '49 A90 convertibles, although that
> seems to be a bit darker shade.
>
> My question is this basically the same color they put on Austin Healey
> engines???
>
> So I have to ask am I seriously confused?   Or in my confusion do I
> have all my facts straight, that my BMIHT certificate says  Grey
> which should be  Steel Dust Grey  which is in fact  Metallic Green ???
>
> Also, was the chassis usually painted gloss Black on these cars?  What
> color were the engines painted?  Body is coming off the chassis in a
> few days so need to sort it all out.
>
> Would love to hear anyone's thoughts on this.
>
> Alan
>
> '52 A90
> '53 BN1
> '59 Jag Mk IX
> '64 BJ8
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