<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Bob, from the Austin-Healey Concours Guidelines.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Randy</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Chassis Paint and Finish</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The chassis was painted at the time the body was, so with the exception of those BN1s</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">and BN2s with black engine compartments (and in some cases full undercarriage) the</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">chassis was the same as the main body color. There was no attempt made to dress off</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">imperfections in the welds or metal forming marks, and paint coverage was only sufficient to</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">make the color complete, and not to achieve any high degree of finish.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">It has been observed on a number of original cars, from early BN1s to late BJ8s, that a</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">rough coating was applied to a few body panels prior to painting the chassis. Supplement</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">11 shows many examples of this and describes how and where it was applied. The coating</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">could have been an Undercoating Material or one used for sound deadening, and it is hard</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">to tell 40 years after the fact, but it definitely was applied over the sheet metal primer.</span></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 29, 2020, at 11:10 AM, Bob Spidell <<a href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net" class="">bspidell@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">Bob<br class=""><br class="">On 4/29/2020 6:26 AM, S and T Miller wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">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.<br class="">TY. Shawn<br class=""><br class="">The Millers<br class=""><br class="">"Always drive them, but remember each drive in an antique car is a test drive."<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><img class="" apple-inline="yes" id="67E7DC97-FE9C-43E5-88D8-7BA24193A760" src="cid:146FF7E7-57B6-4316-9006-F9D908308C7E@hsd1.ga.comcast.net.">_______________________________________________<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>