Hello Rich,
Here in Europe the Concours rules are not that strict and as far as I know
there were 2 or 3 primrose MK 2 BT 7s produced to buyers wishes. To proove
that I need some time at BMIHT at Gaydon. I already have the seats and trim
in black with white piping. I also heard there was one BJ8 produced in
silver with red trim, absolutely rare colour and I have seen one and it
looks beautiful.
Josef Eckert
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Von: Rich C [mailto:richchrysler@quickclic.net]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Januar 2006 14:40
An: Eckert, Josef; healeys@autox.team.net
Betreff: Re: Heritage Certificate vs Originality
Hello Josef,
I agree, Primrose yellow is a very nice colour on Healeys. However, the
works dropped the colour in February 1960. This means it was available on
the earliest 3000's and then stopped.
The bottom line, of course is that it's your car and you may finish it any
way you want.
However, if you were to have it judged using our National Concours Registry
format and score sheets, it would have a standard deduction of 30 points out
of 1000 for "Exterior colours available on Austin Healeys but not documented
as ever having been available on the model being judged." Further to that,
if you were to install the interior colours for a Primrose
car, black trim with yellow piping, or on a duo tone Primrose over Black
with yellow seats, black piping, yellow trim, black carpets, etc. there
would be further deductions for the interior colours not available after
Feb. 1960.
If this does not matter to you, enjoy doing the car as you like.
Rich Chrysler
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From: "Eckert, Josef" <Josef.Eckert@t-mobile.de>
To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 5:28 AM
Subject: Heritage Certificate vs Originality
>I am in the process of restoring a 1962 BT7 tricarb which was
>originally painted OEW. I try to keep everything as close as possible
>to the original specs with one exception. I decided together with my
>wife to do the car in primrose, as this is our favourite Healey
>colour. We have seen this colour on our best friends Healey and fall
>in love with it. If there are 100 Healeys together in a car park, the
>primrose one stands out of all others. And it is a rare colour, not
>seen that often. Now the discussion about originality brought me back
>to think about our decision as I still can change my mind. To say my
>wife's are fixed. But this is one of the mayor decisions, I am
>allowed to do. So I would like to hear the pros and cons for primrose
>or for going with OEW as the other possibility.
> Many thanks for any comments,
>
> Josef Eckert,
> Konigswinter/Germany
>
> 62 BT7, 54 BN1 (not converted to louvered bonnet), 65 Sprite
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