[Healeys] Black faces

Michael Salter michael.salter at gmail.com
Tue Dec 18 14:29:57 MST 2018


Glad someone is paying attention ... obviously I'm not..😞

M

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 3:31 PM Jean Caron <
vintage_roadster_restoration at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Ira,
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> It looks like you and Michael are talking about two different models here.
> Michael is giving you the references about the Austin-Healey 100 and you
> own a BN4 which does not have the same front pieces.
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> Having said that, your car has only one  front “X” brace and yes it is
> painted black. As far as the “air intake Deflector is concerned, it is also
> painted black  as well as the brace at the bottom of it.
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> The rear shroud bottom edge is also painted semi gloss black, on some cars
> BJ8 it has been seen is glossy black. I do not have photos of this area but
> that is the area where your rear shroud meets the rear floor, held by flat
> head rivets.
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> Jean
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> *From:* Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of Michael
> Salter <michael.salter at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 18, 2018 12:54:20 PM
> *To:* i erbs
> *Cc:* Ahealey help
> *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] Black faces
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> Again from the Concours Guidelines. 2018 Edition Pg 91.
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> * 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.*
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> *44 If you find your car fits the exception document it and restore, as
> you believe it was.  Otherwise, paint the braces body color. *
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> Michael Salter
> Technical Editor (Big Healeys)
> The Austin-Healey Concours Registry
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> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 1:43 PM i erbs <eyera3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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
>>       _______                                  _______
>>      (______ \____1959 BN4____/ _______)
>>          (_________________________)
>>           BT7 engine and disk brakes
>>
>>
>> 1967 MGB  [image: MG]
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>> A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. Mario Andretti
>> Please excuse random auto corrects and misspelled words
>>
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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
>>>
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>>>
>>> -----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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