[Healeys] What color red was my BT7?

[Jean Caron]

Derek:

While I agree with you here, it appears not to be the case in the US where in
the last few years at least a couple of restorers who sell their cars at
acutions have easily found buyers at highly inflated prices. The latest being
at the most recent RM auction where two Austin-Healeys with metallic silver,
very close to the metal flake type of years past, the flavour of the day I
suppose, sold well above what, in my opinion they were worth. In addition they
had chromed everything that could possibly be chromed on these cars.



Jean


> From: derek.c.job at gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:49:52 +0100
> To: ahbt71 at gmail.com
> CC: healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] What color red was my BT7?
>
> Mike
> Your car would have been Colorado red. The white will have been added
later,
> red and white was not a colour option. Personally I think it's best to
stick
> to the original colours. Not necessarily the original to your car though.
It's
> always harder to sell cars with personal paint schemes.
>
> Derek
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 30 Aug 2013, at 14:32, Mike Tobin <ahbt71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The chassis is primed and it's now time to decide what colors to paint
the
> > beast. I'd always figured I'd go with a dark metallic grey over black,
but
> > lately I'm thinking of going back to the original white over red. I'm
> > guessing the white is what's called old English white (it was not a pure
> > white). Don't know about the red. I've never seen the original color.
> > When I got the car back from being dipped I could see that there had been
> > some body work done and the coves must have had been repainted. There
> > were a lot drilled holes that had been used to pull dents.
> > I've seen the colors Reno Red and Colorado red being discussed. Any ideas
> > what mine might have been. It's a '62.
> > Cheers,
> > mike t
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