Hi Guys,
That's a really believable story, true or not! I've seen some green
engines that looked like pureed spinich ready to be fed to an infant,
others like the spinich had made a one time trip through the kid!.
Paul A
FROM: Mike Maclean, INTERNET:macleans at earthlink.net
TO: "Paul A. Asgeirsson", PAsgeirsson
CC: Spridgets, INTERNET:spridgets@autox.team.net
Herb Carlson, INTERNET:froggi@cdsnet.net
DATE: 2/14/01 12:48 AM
Re: Re: Engine Paint
List,
There is a story that was related to me about Healey engine colors.
It
goes: a judge of concours was was telling an entrant that the hue of green
for
his Healey engine was the wrong shade. A mustachioed man watching this
exchange
tapped the judge on the shoulder and asked him how he knew that it was the
wrong shade. The judge replied that he had seen many Healeys and was an
expert
in such matters. The mustachioed man replied that he thought that he was
more
of an expert on the engine colors since he was Geoff Healey. He went on to
say
that some days they would run out of paint and his father would send him
out to
the hardware store for more, so the shade was not always exactly the same
and
it wasn't always the same kind of paint! Needless to say the "judge" did
not
have much of a comeback for this.
Mike MacLean-60 Sprite
"Paul A. Asgeirsson" wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Interesting bit on the engine colors. I just got through looking at
> Horlers book and it looks like all 948 and 1098 engines were painted the
> green that is the same as Morris engines. With the exception of the 12V,
> 1275 engines were all the "Healey Green" type of color, which is sort of
a
> metallic green. The 12V 's were all painted black.
>
> So it looks like there were at least three colors of engines in the
> Spridget group. The early green color I stock in spray cans in Enamel.
> There was a variation in this color as I suspect that they mixed it in 55
> gallon drums, first thing Monday Morning and they really were not into
> accurate measurements or they couldn't read the formula that early in the
> week!
>
> Paul A
>
> FROM: "John D'Agostino", INTERNET:jdagostino@mediaone.net
> TO: "WFO Herb", INTERNET:froggi@cdsnet.net
> CC: Spridgets, INTERNET:spridgets@autox.team.net
> DATE: 2/13/01 3:46 PM
>
> Re: Re: Engine Paint
>
>
> Bill Hirsh has excellant engine enamels. Either by the spray bomb or
> quarts.
> I've bought quarts to spray the big items, then use a brush for touch up.
> Flows really well with minimum brush marks. Try a foam brush.
> http://www.hirschauto.com/home.html
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "WFO Herb" <froggi@cdsnet.net>
> To: "Keith Ickes" <kickes@IR.ColoState.EDU>
> Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 2:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Engine Paint
>
> > Try Eastwood
> >
> >
> >
> > Keith Ickes wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone know a source for aerosol spray cans of Healey Green
engine
> paint?
>
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