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Re: [Healeys] Healey Milestone

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Subject: Re: [Healeys] Healey Milestone
From: Oudesluys <coudesluijs@chello.nl>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 18:22:06 +0100
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Very nice combination Bert,
Do consider a leather steering wheel instead of a wooden one. Leather is 
so much more comfortable on long stretches and in hot weather. Much more 
grip to with the thicker rim.
Cheers,
Kees Oudesluijs
NL


Op 23-12-2012 17:41, Bert Van Brande schreef:
> Hi,
>
> Santa came early this year, I must have been a good boy.  ;-)  Yesterday
> i picked up my "Healey" (my short for 1956 Austin-Healey 100 BN2) from the
> painter.  The car had been there for 9 months and the results are amazing.
>   Bodywork is fantastic and straight, gaps are perfect and the Reno red over
> black looks great.  Reno red is dark enough to my taste while not being
> burgundy and looking ever so slightly less saturated at this "intensity", a
> very 50's look indeed.   I am still living in soCal and working in Dallas,
> Texas, so this is quite a challenge but I plan to finish the car in the next
> 3-6 months.  What's left to do:  interior, seats, windshield, headlights,
> driving lights, taillights, indicators, install woodrim steering wheel and
> hornpush, armacord in trunk, chrome-work and a myriad of details.   All
> mechanical and bodywork is done, it's only been 7.5 years since dismantling
> started in my garage.
>
> Big thanks to Charlie Hart for his help and his
> fantastic car trailer.  And big thanks to all contributors to this list, you
> are an awesome gang with an amazing Healey knowledge base, I've not been
> active here for a while with the whole work situation.  A special thanks in
> memory of Rich Chrysler who always took the time to guide me like a true
> mentor and special thanks to Curt Arndt who is always ready with help and
> advice with great enthusiasm.
>
> Some pics at:  http://db.tt/5fFtthG1
>
> The red
> is a bit darker in real life, modern digital sensors seem to picture the red
> too bright.  The painter had put out a bucket and the white bottle with polish
> to show off that you can read the labels off the reflection in the black.  A
> true artist!  A bit of movie trivia:  The service station the car rolls out
> from was used in the movies "Next" with Nicholas Cage and the recent "Race to
> Witch Mountain".
>
> Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year,
>
> Bert
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