[Healeys] Black faces
Bob Spidell
bspidell at comcast.net
Tue Dec 18 19:05:09 MST 2018
Ah ... I was thinking of the horizontal brace (not the 'X').
On 12/18/2018 10:54 AM, Michael Salter wrote:
> Again from the Concours Guidelines. 2018 Edition Pg 91.
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> / Double front X-braces immediately behind the grille are painted body
> color, except some white cars had this brace painted black 44.
> • Front inner apron panels fastened to vertical division panels using
> pan head Phillips screws and large flat washers, which were also
> painted body color. Very early cars have been found to have only the
> horizontal panel and not the vertical one. In these cases where the
> vertical panel is missing, the two holes located on the front-to-back
> center portion of the panel are missing. On OEW 100s where the engine
> compartment was painted black, these inner apron panels were also black./
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> /44 If you find your car fits the exception document it and restore,
> as you believe it was. Otherwise, paint the braces body color.
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> Michael Salter
> Technical Editor (Big Healeys)
> The Austin-Healey Concours Registry
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> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 1:43 PM i erbs <eyera3000 at gmail.com
> <mailto:eyera3000 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Can someone post a photo of the lip?
> My brace is painted blue, but everyone tells me to paint it black
> before I reinstall my grille... What about the air dam, should it
> be black or body color?
> Ira Erbs
> Portland,OR
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> A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. Mario Andretti
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> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 7:24 AM BJ8Healeys <sbyers at ec.rr.com
> <mailto:sbyers at ec.rr.com>> wrote:
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> From the Anderson/Moment Restoration Guide:
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> Page 75 (third column, first paragraph): "The X-brace in
> front of the radiator was brush painted black (except on black
> cars0 so that it wouldn't be visible through the grille opening."
> Page 90 (third column, third paragraph): "The lower lip of
> the rear shroud was brush-painted satin black over the body
> color, generally on all but black cars, probably to make the
> lower shroud lip less noticeable."
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> Steve Byers
> HBJ8L/36666
> BJ8 Registry
> AHCA Delegate at Large
> Havelock, NC
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net
> <mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net>] On Behalf Of
> josef-eckert at t-online.de <mailto:josef-eckert at t-online.de>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 2:26 AM
> To: healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>
> Subject: [Healeys] Black faces
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> I read the following question recently on facebook, but no
> clear answer was given. Does anybody know, especially to the
> cross panel in front of the radiator?
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> Is it right that the lower lip on the rear shroud was painted
> (semigloss) black on 6 cylinder Austin-Healeys and the same
> was with the cross panel front face in front of the radiator?
> Are there other body panels which are not just bolt on painted
> in black?
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