The whole thing. I found the original color under a couple of later coats of
paint. It was a match to the body color. The first time I mentioned it here
there was speculation that at the time the factory was experimenting with
color schemes. I like it that way. It extends the body color into the cockpit
and makes it seem a little bit more dated and primitive. It would probably be
a lot more expensive on an assembly line. If you were to do it to every car
the dash would have to be special to the car. If they were all the same you
could just pull from a stack of identical parts on the line. I think the black
and silver, and the single piece dash, was probably standardized as a cost
saving move. Again, this was non-metallic paint, which was a little less
common than the metallic Healey Blue.
Bill Lawrence
From: richchrysler@quickclic.net
To: ynotink@msn.com; tadeusz.malkiewicz@plusnet.pl; healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] What color should the instrument panel be for BN1
HealeyBlue?
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:16:29 -0400
Bill, the entire dash was Healey Blue or just the
instrument pod?
Rich
From: WILLIAM B LAWRENCE
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 8:25 PM
To: Rich C ; tadeusz.malkiewicz@plusnet.pl ;
healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Healeys] What color should the instrument panel be for
BN1 HealeyBlue?
My BN1 (#554, Oct 53) came with a two piece dash the same color
as the body, Healey Blue, Non-metallic.
Bill Lawrence
> From: richchrysler@quickclic.net
>
To: tadeusz.malkiewicz@plusnet.pl;
healeys@autox.team.net
> Date:
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:48:04 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] What color should
the instrument panel be for BN1 HealeyBlue?
>
> Usually the
instrument panel on a Healey Blue Hundred is a dark midnight
> blue with
silver instrument pod. However, we've observed a few original
>
exceptions here. Some of the early 2 piece dashes had the separate
>
instrument pod painted Healey Blue, though most were silver. A few later
> BN1's with single piece dash pressing seemed to be painted all black.
An
> example here is John Wheatley's very original BN1, though that's the
only
> one I've ever personally seen. I believe his was built about May
of '54.
> As for formulas for the dark blue and the silver, I'll quote
from my
> painter's notes:
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