- 21. Re: Paint (score: 1)
- Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:31:21 -0800
- Try paint code ICI 3481. Bob Kitterer 1960 Sprite (Mk IV in disguise) 1966 Sprite Mk III (Trevor, in boxes) 2000 Miata Special Edition
- /html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00713.html (8,926 bytes)
- 22. Re: Paint (score: 1)
- Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:55:17 -0500 reply-type=original
- Thanks Bob. A little Googling on the name Donald Pikovnik got me to the Coloramic Process, Inc. website where Mr. Pikovnik's book is described in detail. They say that Mr. Pikovnik's book is out of p
- /html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00719.html (10,043 bytes)
- 23. Re: Paint (score: 1)
- Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:12:49 -0600
- If you would like to borrow the page from Don's book, Rick<G>... just ask. Ed
- /html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00721.html (8,839 bytes)
- 24. Re: Paint (score: 1)
- Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:45:03 -0800
- Nice work Rick. i will have to add that to my bookmarks. Bob Kitterer 1960 Sprite (Mk IV in disguise) 1966 Sprite Mk III (Trevor, in boxes) 2000 Miata Special Edition
- /html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00723.html (9,515 bytes)
- 25. Re: Paint (score: 1)
- Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:01:15 -0500
- Hey girly man or not, the ladys love it :) My Healey has been called a "nipple" by a guy but lots of guys said it was a sharp car. None of them wanted to buy it though ;) -- Frank Clarici Toms River,
- /html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00724.html (8,846 bytes)
- 26. Re: Paint (score: 1)
- Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:16:08 -0600
- An ARCHIVE search of Healey colors reveals WHAT??? K.I.S.S., folks!!! Don's book (I have one<G>) has been around a WHILE!! Free to use. Ed
- /html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00727.html (8,881 bytes)
- 27. Re: Paint (score: 1)
- Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:18:43 -0600
- <<None of them wanted to buy it though>> Only 'cause it was done WRONG AND YOU couldn't teach anybody how to drive a REAL car, Frank!!!! LMAO!!! Ed
- /html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00728.html (8,154 bytes)
- 28. Re: Paint (score: 1)
- Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:24:57 -0500
- Yup, and I tried as best as I could to improve that piss poor design as I was restoring it but you just can't turn a tractor into a sports car no matter how hard you try. Scuttle shake is normal flex
- /html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00730.html (8,897 bytes)
- 29. Re: Paint (score: 1)
- Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:43:55 -0500
- H-AN6 cars were not available in many colours, Black, Iris Blue, Speedwell Blue, Signal Red, Old English White, and your Deep Pink, which is the only colour not shared with other Spridgets, yet anoth
- /html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00813.html (9,550 bytes)
- 30. PAINT (score: 1)
- Author: "Daryl May" <mayfam@sprynet.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 21:03:58 -0800
- Is the black paint in the engine compartment . . . best if it is flat, semi-gloss, or gloss? Daryl
- /html/spridgets/1997-11/msg00128.html (6,583 bytes)
- 31. Re: PAINT (score: 1)
- Author: Jaral48462@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 09:59:32 -0500 (EST)
- << Is the black paint in the engine compartment . . . best if it is flat, semi-gloss, or gloss? Daryl >> Depends on what kind of car you are refering to. All Big Healeys and Sprites were painted body
- /html/spridgets/1997-11/msg00139.html (6,875 bytes)
- 32. Paint (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 09:25:18 -0800
- Is there any concensus on the best primer to use on the Frogeye Sprite. Decades ago, it was rumored that the entire body had been galvanized, but even if true, it will go out the window with blasting
- /html/spridgets/2005-12/msg01522.html (7,814 bytes)
- 33. RE: Paint (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:23:16 -0500
- Dupont, PPG, and a couple of others make the best. If you are using PPG paint, for example, as topcoat, start out by using one of their primers. If Dupont, then use Dupont's primer (they have a very
- /html/spridgets/2005-12/msg01524.html (8,630 bytes)
- 34. Re: Paint (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:20:18 -0600
- snip .. so it wasn't the leaking oil and the ability to be stored indoors in small spaces?? ;-) Lester
- /html/spridgets/2005-12/msg01525.html (7,825 bytes)
- 35. Re: Paint (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 22:39:59 -0800
- I'm sorry, Bud, but I have to disagree with you there. Our English cousins have not been wooed away into the "disposable" society, and certainly did not have that attitude around 1960. It has been my
- /html/spridgets/2005-12/msg01526.html (9,380 bytes)
- 36. RE: Paint (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 09:42:34 -0500
- You are absolutely right, of course. My choice of words was incorrect. I think a more accurate characterization would be to say that, in order to keep manufacturing costs down, and be competitive (p
- /html/spridgets/2005-12/msg01528.html (9,524 bytes)
- 37. Re: Paint (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:29:14 -0500
- I use 3 primers. Etch primer if it's bare metal. Follow by epoxy primer to seal it up and make it hard. Then body work over the epoxy primer, and finally a high build primer/surfacer to make it smoot
- /html/spridgets/2005-12/msg01530.html (8,977 bytes)
- 38. Re: Paint (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 15:50:27 -0800
- The eggshell white that Ford paints their trucks is almost a perfect match. Probably cheaper too. Mike MacLean 60 Sprite 56 BN2
- /html/spridgets/2005-12/msg01531.html (10,077 bytes)
- 39. Re: Paint (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 22:14:53 -0800
- Buster, The ICI paint code for OEW that was used on the bugeyes is 2379. PPG should be able to call up the formula from the ICI code. I think all of their paints are now matched/cross referenced to t
- /html/spridgets/2005-12/msg01532.html (8,337 bytes)
- 40. Re: Paint (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:29:12 -0500
- Now to original colours, there is a variance, by year, month, week, day of week, batch. That was how it was done then. There is a Healey book with all the BMC paint colours available. For perfection
- /html/spridgets/2005-12/msg01540.html (9,064 bytes)
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