[Healeys] Factory body/ frame primer

[Randy Hicks]

Bob, from the Austin-Healey Concours Guidelines.

Randy

Chassis Paint and Finish

The chassis was painted at the time the body was, so with the exception of those BN1s
and BN2s with black engine compartments (and in some cases full undercarriage) the
chassis was the same as the main body color. There was no attempt made to dress off
imperfections in the welds or metal forming marks, and paint coverage was only sufficient to
make the color complete, and not to achieve any high degree of finish.

It has been observed on a number of original cars, from early BN1s to late BJ8s, that a
rough coating was applied to a few body panels prior to painting the chassis. Supplement
11 shows many examples of this and describes how and where it was applied. The coating
could have been an Undercoating Material or one used for sound deadening, and it is hard
to tell 40 years after the fact, but it definitely was applied over the sheet metal primer.

> On Apr 29, 2020, at 11:10 AM, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> This may or may not be relevant, but some BN2/100M chassis and frames were known to have been painted black from the scuttle (firewall) forward.  I believe ours was but, unfortunately I didn't know this bit of trivia before ours was painted all white and reassembled.
> 
> Bob
> 
> On 4/29/2020 6:26 AM, S and T Miller 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
>> 
>> "Always drive them, but remember each drive in an antique car is a test drive."
>> 
> 
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