[Healeys] ODP: Re: What color should the instrument panel be for BN1 HealeyBlue?

[Josef.Eckert at t-systems.com]

Rich,
Today I know more, but at the time I did the restoration of my 100 more than
20 years ago I missed to do detail pictures of such items. First I painted the
dashboard black again, then added silver around the instruments.  In a second
restoration I brought the car back to original specs with all the original
panels I had replaced by new items before, except the dashboard, where I
decided to have it in the correct green/silver.

Josef Eckert


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BN1 HealeyBlue?

Josef,

That is the sort of accurate information we need to have submitted to the
National Concours steering committee to make the Concours Guidelines more
correct. We certainly don't want to lose really accurate original information
and steer people the wrong way just because what we've documented to be
correct so far is in fact not completely accurate.

Rich Chrysler

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From: <Josef.Eckert at t-systems.com>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 2:48 PM
To: <Healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] ODP: Re: What color should the instrument panel be for
BN1 HealeyBlue?

> My 100 was also built in May `54, BodyNo 3651, but colour was/is
> Spruce Green.
> The car was never restored when I bought it in `86. The dashboard was
> fully black with  an oxide red primer underneath. Now its Concours
> correct Spruce Green/Silver. But I am 100% sure it was all over black
> originally.
>
> Josef eckert
> Konigswinter/Germany
>
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> Von: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net
> [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] Im Auftrag von Greg Lemon
> Gesendet: Montag, 15. Mdrz 2010 15:56
> An: Tadeusz Malkiewicz; Rich C
> Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
> Betreff: Re: [Healeys] ODP: Re: What color should the instrument panel
> be for
> BN1 HealeyBlue?
>
> My Hundred was built in May of '54 as well, Healey Blue, the dash was
> black with silver when I got it, when I stripped it to repaint there
> was no evidence of any blue paint, only black and I believe an oxide
> red primer underneath, but the car had been restored before I got it
> to some extent, and in fact a later found out spend some time in bits
> in the basement of an Omaha repair shop before it was brought back to
> life, hardly an example like John Wheatley's car, so I don't know if
> the black was original or an older re-do, but arguably more evidence
> that some of the Healey Blue cars had black instrument panels.
>
> Greg Lemon
> ________