[Healeys] Early BN1 white wheel wells

[Alan Seigrist]

Michael -

Some perspective here.

In 1952 and 53, metallic paints were two things:

1) More expensive
2) More unstable.

White paint was the opposite - very stable and actually a good base to
spray over with light metallic color later.

Also some early cars also had black engine bays if I'm not mistaken,
Rich will know.

Probably the demand was high for the mettallic blue and they decided
to respray the car to a customer's order, and took a car from Jensens
that had been partially painted white.

Cheers,

Alan

On 4/27/12, Michael Salter <michaelsalter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh Wise Ones,
>
> I'm starting on the restoration of my very early BN1 (#174). This is a very
> original and sound, apparently low mileage but badly weathered car. During
> the dis-assembly process I took about 500 photos of details to aid in the
> reassembly.
> I was showing these to a very patient and Rich Chrysler yesterday and he
> commented that the wheel wells appeared to all have been originally painted
> white which seemed odd. Upon closer examination it appears that this may
> have been original because the white paint was only on body components
> which would have been installed at Jensens and not on mechanical components
> which would have been installed later at Longbridge.
> This is a Healey Blue car and I'm wondering if this may actually have been
> done in the factory. It is a pretty rudimentary "quick shot" with no
> evidence of masking but no white on things like the steering column, nuts
> holding the turn signal relay, the original front shocks, the real bump
> boxes or springs, etc etc.
> Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this on a very early Healey
> Blue BN1?
>
>
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