Frank.... TOBY.... here is the real deal... first you acknowledge it is
your car and your taste.... if you decide not to compete in concours events
with it... and you like it.... then nothing else matters... Lots of folks
in our Healey club aren't into concours cars... and in the popular class
cars, beauty is in the eye of the beholder...
Personally I am spending half my life these days getting this Salt flat
Camaro ready for the season... and as a person with a significant interest
in Healeys of all kinds one of the paint schemes I have come up with is in
fact the side panels of the Healey on my Camaro.... I was going to do the
Ice Blue and white.. except I was going to put the white on top... I still
don't know what color the car is going to be.. and won't till I buy the
paint... I am considering all kinds of weird paint schemes with the main
focus on being somewhat traditional....
bottom line... if you like it.... go for it... I would vote for it in a
popular class simply because you had a different thought...
Keith Turk
Austin Healey 100 / Bugeye / Box Sprite / Bonneville Land Speed Racer
Camaro ( D Gas Altered )
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> From: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
> To: R. Toby Atwater <tob@taltec.net>
> Cc: Sprite Maling List <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: paint scheme....
> Date: Friday, January 22, 1999 7:21 PM
>
> "R. Toby Atwater" wrote:
> >
> > How would the Austin Heleay Sprite Gods feel about a paint job
similar
> > too the curve of a big Heleay? How come only the previous Heleays have
it
> > while the Sprite doesn't? Was Healey responsible for it?
> > I just can't get over the bi color paint scheme.....
> > (This probably brakes some kind of Sprite ethics....but what the hey!)
>
> All MG Midgets were 2 tone from 1970 on.
> Black sills under what ever color the car was.
> It looks OK.
> There are no recess panels on these cars to warrant any other 2 tone
> scheme.
> IMHO.
>
> --
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
> Lots of LBCs
> http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut
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