I've been told by a couple Austin experts that those color chips are
not very accurate in shade and color for the post war Austins...
Thanks for thinking of me though....! :)
On 2/2/10, Curt/Nancy Arndt <cnaarndt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan,
>
> This page from the Auto Color Library has 1952 Austin color chips.
>
> http://www.autocolorlibrary.com/default.aspx
>
> Look at ash green on page 3. plus there are several shades of grey. Also
> there Dove Grey on page 8. Anyway the charts on pages 9 and 14 may help.
>
> These pages are listing under "ahmg" in the index and I looked at 1951 and
> 1952.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Curt
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Alan Seigrist <healey.nut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> All -
>>
>> I suspect that John Harper is best suited to answer this question, but
>> I'll put it out there.
>>
>> I own a '51/'52 Atlantic A90 Sports Saloon. I am in the process of
>> stripping it down to paint it.
>>
>> I have a BMIHT Certificate which only states the car is "Grey" which I
>> believe to be "Steel Dust Grey" which was a postwar metallic color
>> they used on these cars.
>>
>> Both inside the heater box and the bulkhead behind the dash seem to
>> have the same color which is a soft light metallic green color. These
>> are the areas on an Atlantic that are rarely covered over in a
>> respray.
>>
>> The metallic green behind the dash is particularly telling as it seems
>> the original factory rust red primer is peaking just below the
>> metallic overspray near the upper parts under the shroud. It looks
>> very much like what I would expect factory overspray to look like, so
>> I am pretty sure this is the original color.
>>
>> The color itself is a light metallic green, very similar in shade to
>> the metallic green painted on my 64 BJ8 engine. It also looks like
>> Seafoam Green" that I ve seen on '49 A90 convertibles, although that
>> seems to be a bit darker shade.
>>
>> My question is this basically the same color they put on Austin Healey
>> engines???
>>
>> So I have to ask am I seriously confused? Or in my confusion do I
>> have all my facts straight, that my BMIHT certificate says Grey
>> which should be Steel Dust Grey which is in fact Metallic Green ???
>>
>> Also, was the chassis usually painted gloss Black on these cars? What
>> color were the engines painted? Body is coming off the chassis in a
>> few days so need to sort it all out.
>>
>> Would love to hear anyone's thoughts on this.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> '52 A90
>> '53 BN1
>> '59 Jag Mk IX
>> '64 BJ8
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