[Healeys] Factory body/ frame primer

[S and T Miller]

Thank you Randy. Interesting.  My door hinge area looks the same. I'll have to look in some more areas to see.


The Millers

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From: Randy Hicks <healey100m at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 10:26 AM
To: S and T Miller <stmiller96 at hotmail.com>
Cc: Healey List <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Factory body/ frame primer

Shawn, my BN2 100M had both reddish brown and black primer. Seemed to vary. The  door hinges were painted on the car and there is black primer when hinges removed. See photo; Black also appears a couple other places but the majority of the chassis is primed in reddish brown.

BTW, it was a 33,000 mile car with original paint and never apart before.

Randy

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On Apr 29, 2020, at 9:26 AM, S and T Miller <stmiller96 at hotmail.com<mailto:stmiller96 at hotmail.com>> wrote:

Hello all. I have noticed my BN2 has black factory primer (possible single stage paint that body color was painted over when assembled- much like eletro coat primer that repo parts have on them). All later cars (BN4 on) that I have had experience with had red oxide primer used from the factory.  Does anyone know was there a switch point? Were all 100's primered black? Were all cars eletro coated, and later cars primed with red oxide additionally? Was elctro coating even a thing back then? Just curious.
TY. Shawn

The Millers

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