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Heritage Certificate vs Originality Yellow

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Subject: Heritage Certificate vs Originality Yellow
From: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:22:06 -0500
Doug

The centershift transmission had been fitted to the Mk II roadsters for some 7
months before the introduction of the BJ 7 in the late summer of 62.   The
centershift roadster interior trim was carried over to the new model, except
for the "convertible bits" ie: dash top, door trim, rear seat back &
quarters.

And for the first time the columns for Yellow trim were not seen in the "Paint
and Trim Colour Chart for Austin Healey BJ 7  (A 7185)".  These are the
factory spec sheets that document and date the color and trim changes.   There
is no delete point listed for yellow trim in the BN-BT-7 sheets.  Its just not
there anymore on the BJ 7 sheet, suggesting that the Primrose colour simply
wasn't carried over to the Convertible.  There IS, however, a note on the BJ 8
sheet stating "Color schemes 5 & 6 (both Florida Green) deleted and Color
Schemes 18 and 19  (both Metallic Golden Beige) added  on 6 / 1 / 67".

In other words, Rich, a mid-run delete like your Feb/ 60 would have been
documented in the sheets.

Best regards
Peter




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