[Healeys] Black faces

[Michael Salter]

Again from the Concours Guidelines. 2018 Edition Pg 91.


* Double front X-braces immediately behind the grille are painted body
color, except some white cars had this brace painted black 44. • Front
inner apron panels fastened to vertical division panels using pan head
Phillips screws and large flat washers, which were also painted body color.
Very early cars have been found to have only the horizontal panel and not
the vertical one. In these cases where the vertical panel is missing, the
two holes located on the front-to-back center portion of the panel are
missing.  On OEW 100s where the engine compartment was painted black, these
inner apron panels were also black.*


*44 If you find your car fits the exception document it and restore, as you
believe it was.  Otherwise, paint the braces body color. *

Michael Salter
Technical Editor (Big Healeys)
The Austin-Healey Concours Registry














On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 1:43 PM i erbs <eyera3000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can someone post a photo of the lip?
> My brace is painted blue, but everyone tells me to paint it black before I
> reinstall my grille... What about the air dam, should it be black or body
> color?
> Ira Erbs
> Portland,OR
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> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 7:24 AM BJ8Healeys <sbyers at ec.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> From the Anderson/Moment Restoration Guide:
>>
>> Page 75 (third column, first paragraph):  "The X-brace in front of the
>> radiator was brush painted black (except on black cars0 so that it wouldn't
>> be visible through the grille opening."
>> Page 90 (third column, third paragraph):  "The lower lip of the rear
>> shroud was brush-painted satin black over the body color, generally on all
>> but black cars, probably to make the lower shroud lip less noticeable."
>>
>> Steve Byers
>> HBJ8L/36666
>> BJ8 Registry
>> AHCA Delegate at Large
>> Havelock, NC
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
>> josef-eckert at t-online.de
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 2:26 AM
>> To: healeys at autox.team.net
>> Subject: [Healeys] Black faces
>>
>> I read the following question recently on facebook, but no clear  answer
>> was given. Does anybody know, especially to the cross panel in front of the
>> radiator?
>>
>> Is it right that the lower lip on the rear shroud was painted (semigloss)
>> black on 6 cylinder Austin-Healeys and the same was with the cross panel
>> front face in front of the radiator? Are there other body panels which are
>> not just bolt on painted in black?
>>
>> 
>>
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