Looking through the color chip library at www.AutocolorLibrary.com brought up
this page:
http://autocolorlibrary.com/cgi-bin/search/searchpic.pl?1955-ahmg-pg11.jpg
It shows THREE shades of Healey Blue in use as early as 1957. One shade
("H-1 Blue Iridescent") is for 1954, one ("Ice Blue Iridescent") is for later
100's to 1957 (the year of the chip card) and a solid, ie: non-metallic, shade
("Ice Blue") for the earliest 1953-54 Healeys. There is also Spruce Green,
Carmine Red and Ivory. I have this same R-M card, and the one shade of blue
is definitely non-metallic.
What is interesting is that these are not modern recreations of old historic
colours, but practical chips meant to repaint cars that were then current,
ordinary, on-the-road vehicles. In other words, 'these shades had better be
pretty darn close, or we pay to repaint the customer's car again'.
Best regards
Peter
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