Hey Steve
Thanks for that info!
So it looks like the Metallic Golden Beige BJ8's are actually as common as
bums, compared to the |ber rare two tone BJ8s
:)
> Metallic Golden Beige: 92 (5%)
> Ivory White/Black: 13 (0.7%)
> Black/Colorado Red: 10 (0.5%)
> Colorado Red/Black: 10 (0.5%)
> Ivory White/Red: 7 (0.3%)
> BRG/Ivory White: 1
> Colorado Red/White: 1
As far as colour combination go - and the red upholstery variants of the
metallic golden beige cars - I'm sure there are even rarer variants of the
two tone cars once you factor in hide (leather) Vs vinyl seats; and right
hand drive Vs left hand drive.
Personally - I love them all!
Chris
www.myaustinhealey.com
|ber rare right hand drive, ivory over black, black leather interior BJ8
(with matching Heritage certificate & body production windscreen card)
http://www.myaustinhealey.com/histintro.html)
----- Original Message -----
From: "BJ8Healeys" <sbyers@ec.rr.com>
To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 3:30 AM
Subject: Paint color distribution, was RE: MGB cars
> Dave, here's some info on color distribution from the BJ8 registry. Your
> "seat of the pants" assessment was certainly not too far off. Out of
> 6,130
> BJ8s now included in the registry (34.6% of total production), I have
> documentation (either copies of BMIHT certificates, or the data is copied
> directly from the BMIHT archives) for the original colors of 1,785 cars
> (10%
> of total BJ8 production). The distribution is as follows, in order of
> decreasing numbers. Percentages are relative to 1,785:
>
> BRG: 518 (29%)
> Healey Blue: 421 (23.5%)
> Colorado Red: 298 (16.7%)
> Ivory White: 271 (15%)
> Black: 111 (6%)
> Metallic Golden Beige: 92 (5%, but we know there were a total of 553 of
> these, or 3% of total BJ8 production).
> Healey Blue/White: 30 (1%)
> Ivory White/Black: 13 (0.7%)
> Black/Colorado Red: 10 (0.5%)
> Colorado Red/Black: 10 (0.5%)
> Ivory White/Red: 7 (0.3%)
> BRG/Ivory White: 1 (this is not a color combination listed as available
> by
> Clausager, however there was at least one per BMIHT records. It was a
> Home market (RHD) car, unfortunately written off in South Africa in
> 1970)
> Colorado Red/White: 1
> Florida Green: 1
> Silver Grey: 1 (special order, and only one existed)
>
> Having a large number of BMIHT certificates collected together allows for
> some interesting comparisons, observations, and statistics. For example,
> paging through the 500 or so that I have from the earlier cars toward the
> later shows that in the beginning, Ivory White and Black were dominating
> colors, whereas toward the middle Healey Blue takes over, and for later
> production BRG begins to dominate. Almost all of the last 50 cars
> produced
> were BRG. I suppose this gives some indication of what the factory
> thought
> was a good seller as production progressed.
>
> To improve the accuracy of the statistics, the more actual data we have,
> the
> better. I would very much like to have as many as possible of the BMIHT
> certificates collected. Anyone who knows they have not provided a copy
> for
> their BJ8 and would like to contribute to our knowledge of Healeys is
> invited to send me a copy - scanned, fax, or regular mail.
>
> Thanks, and Happy Healeying!
> Steve Byers
> HBJ8L/36666 (originally BRG (yawn!))
> Havelock, NC USA
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