- 1. [Healeys] factory numbers, etc. (score: 1)
- Author: "James Shope" <healeymanjim@hansencc.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:11:28 -0700
- does anyone know for certain whether the factory ever painted the engine/transmission/od a blue color, and if not, why would a restoration shop do it? healeymanjim ___________________________________
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- 2. Re: [Healeys] factory numbers, etc. (score: 1)
- Author: George Haywood <haywoodone@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:39:05 -0400
- I can say with reasonable certainty that the factory painted the engine, tranny/OD, and generator with a color that had a blue hue to it. It may have been what was called green but it was quite blue
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- 3. Re: [Healeys] factory numbers, etc. (score: 1)
- Author: "Alan Seigrist" <healey.nut@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:19:30 +0800
- A few very early 100s had their engines painted a marine grey/blue color, and if I'm not mistaken factory replacement "gold seal" engines often were blue in color. Alan _____________________________
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- 4. Re: [Healeys] factory numbers, etc. (score: 1)
- Author: John Harper <ah@jharper.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:55:28 +0100
- I was based at BMC Service Cowley for a while in the early 1960s and can be 99.9% certain that Gold Seal Engines were exactly that. To have not painted them gold would have caused utter confusion. R
- /html/healeys/2007-10/msg00496.html (7,850 bytes)
- 5. Re: [Healeys] factory numbers, etc. (score: 1)
- Author: "Simon Lachlan" <simon.lachlan@homecall.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:30:57 +0100
- I never saw one that wasn't gold. When I was a kid(?) we all had pretty dodgy motors, mostly minis, and we used to put Gold(coloured)seal engines in them as and when we blew the originals. Usually p
- /html/healeys/2007-10/msg00505.html (8,921 bytes)
- 6. Re: [Healeys] factory numbers, etc. (score: 1)
- Author: "Alan Seigrist" <healey.nut@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:40:57 +0800
- I have a factory gold seal A90 gearbox with about 5K miles on it ... Hen's teeth!!!! -- Alan '52 A90 '53 BN1 '64 BJ8 _______________________________________________ Healeys@autox.team.net http://auto
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