Alan,
Yes, you are quite right. This rare red leather, red piping option was
available on the U.K.and European market BJ8's it would seem. However the
original question was with regard to "Roadsters" and the BJ7 and BJ8 were
considered "Convertibles".
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Seigrist Blue 100" <healey.nut@gmail.com>
To: "Rich C" <richchrysler@quickclic.net>
Cc: "Charlie Baldwin" <mgcharlie@comcast.net>; "healey list"
<healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: Red seats
> Rich -
>
> On the BJ8 if you ordered factory optional leather seats (I think UK
> buyers
> could do this), would they have come with red piping?
>
> Alan
>
>
> On 4/28/07, Rich C <richchrysler@quickclic.net> wrote:
>>
>> The only Big Healey roadsters that would have had red seats with red
>> piping
>> would be the BN2 model, and only the ones produced from end of '55 to
>> the
>> end of BN2 production, approx end of July '56.
>>
>> To my knowledge there were no 6 cylinder models produced with red seats
>> that
>> would have had matching piping. Red seats with black piping was available
>> from September '56 on the new BN4 right through to the last of the BJ7's.
>>
>> Rich Chrysler
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Charlie Baldwin" <mgcharlie@comcast.net>
>> To: "healey list" <healeys@autox.team.net>
>> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 5:11 PM
>> Subject: Red seats
>>
>>
>> > Can anyone shed any light on what models of big Healey roadsters with
>> red
>> > seats had red piping and which had black piping?
>> > Thanks.
>> > Charlie Baldwin
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