Team,
There was an article in the Sacramento Bee Friday about a law that goes into
effect Jan 1 allowing car owners to apply for retro plates for $50. The catch
is that 7,500 requests have to be made for each type of plate before they will
begin printing them (see link below).
Regards
Phil
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/12/21/5069091/back-seat-driver-dmv-to-produce.html
On 12/23/12, Bert Van Brande<bertvanbrande@yahoo.com> wrote:
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.
Big thanks to Charlie Hart for his help and his
fantastic car trailer. And big thanks to all contributors to this list, you
are an awesome gang with an amazing Healey knowledge base, I've not been
active here for a while with the whole work situation. A special thanks in
memory of Rich Chrysler who always took the time to guide me like a true
mentor and special thanks to Curt Arndt who is always ready with help and
advice with great enthusiasm.
Some pics at: http://db.tt/5fFtthG1
The red
is a bit darker in real life, modern digital sensors seem to picture the red
too bright. The painter had put out a bucket and the white bottle with polish
to show off that you can read the labels off the reflection in the black. A
true artist! A bit of movie trivia: The service station the car rolls out
from was used in the movies "Next" with Nicholas Cage and the recent "Race to
Witch Mountain".
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year,
Bert
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