[Spridgets] Ribcase painting?

[Brad Fornal]

Page 7, of the Originality Guide for Restorations and Registry Inspections
for the Austin-Healey Sprite, by Robert Garofalo says "Smooth case
transmission were painted with the same engine color but the rib case
transmissions were unpainted and left natural aluminum"
That said, I painted mine, and it looks pretty nice.

On Nov 17, 2007 7:42 AM, Phil Nase <nases at verizon.net> wrote:

> I can't find any information on whether the ribcase gearboxes were painted
> engine color or not.  I'm putting it in a Bugeye on a 1098 so the car is
> hardly "correct" but my books don't say if it was painted like the
> smoothcases were.
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