Car looks great, Bert! Congratulations. I thought I remembered something
about a Healey being in "The Race to Witch Mountain." Yep, there was:
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_240713-Austin-Healey-3000-BJ7-1962.html
Rick
"Madman in a death machine"
Follow My Nasty Boy Build:
http://tinyurl.com/yj52fwo
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From: Bert Van
Brande <bertvanbrande@yahoo.com>
To: List Healey <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2012 11:41 AM
Subject: [Healeys] Healey Milestone
Hi,
Santa came early this year, I must have been a good boy. ;-) Yesterday
i picked up my "Healey" (my short for 1956 Austin-Healey 100 BN2) from the
painter. The car had been there for 9 months and the results are amazing.
Bodywork is fantastic and straight, gaps are perfect and the Reno red over
black looks great. Reno red is dark enough to my taste while not being
burgundy and looking ever so slightly less saturated at this "intensity", a
very 50's look indeed. I am still living in soCal and working in Dallas,
Texas, so this is quite a challenge but I plan to finish the car in the next
3-6 months. What's left to do: interior, seats, windshield, headlights,
driving lights, taillights, indicators, install woodrim steering wheel and
hornpush, armacord in trunk, chrome-work and a myriad of details. All
mechanical and bodywork is done, it's only been 7.5 years since dismantling
started in my garage.
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