If thre's this much of a fight over white, wait until someone asks for the
correct formula for Healey Blue!
--- On Fri, 11/13/09, robertduquette@sympatico.ca
<robertduquette@sympatico.ca> wrote:
From: robertduquette@sympatico.ca <robertduquette@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Ivory White vs OEW
To: "Healeys" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 1:09 PM
OEW is your battle. My interest when I found this site, was the Carmen Red
and the Carmine Red with the same Mfg Code and different ICI codes.
Battle on.
> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:12:13 +0000
>
> IIRC--the book's at home--Pikovnic lists two whites for BN1s and BN2s: OEW
and Ivory (Pale or White I don't recall--think Pale). I'll check tonight, but
I believe they were different color codes (the paint chips were perceptibly
different).
>
> So, the answer is: there were two 'whites' for the 100s, and one--known
either as OE or Ivory--for the 6-cyl cars?
>
>
> bs
>
> --------------------------------
> Bob Spidell - San Jose, CA
>
>
> Fellow Listers,
>
> Let's not make this harder than it is.
>
> White six-cylinder cars are listed as Ivory White. However from the
Concours
Guidelines, 2008 edition, page 117 under 6-cylinder Cars...
>
> - Ivory White and Old English White, though different color names, all were
the same WT.3 paint code.
>
> Also from Don Pikovnik's book "Austin Healey Guide to Historic Colors."
>
> Old English White - WT.03
> ICI - 2379
> aka "Ivory"
>
> OK, one more time.. AKA "IVORY"
>
> And for those who are still confused aka means - also known as.
>
> THEREFORE...for all intents and purposes it says Ivory White (is listed as
the color name for our cars) but is in fact Old English White.
>
> My apologies to Wm. Shakespeare - "A white Austin Healey by any other name
will still be Olde English White."
>
> This horse is DEAD.
>
> Cheers ;-)
>
> Curt
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