Derek,
This is a very detailed article describing the restoration including
the research into the color.
http://classiccarmag.net/austin-healey-special-test-car-and-100s/
Briefly, the
car was originally painted the Docker light metallic green (Healey Ice Green)
as the other Special Test Cars. Geoff Healey ordered the car repainted Spruce
Green for the '55 LeMans. My guess this was an effort to have the car run in
Britain's international racing colors for LeMans.
Rick
"Madman in a
death machine"
Follow My Nasty Boy Build: http://tinyurl.com/yj52fwo
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From: Derek Job <derek.c.job@gmail.com>
To:
pdzwig@summaventures.com
Cc: Healey <Healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday,
May 10, 2013 3:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] NOJs
Peter,
I was wondering
about the different colours of the two cars. 392 is the
sort of colour I was
expecting whereas 393 seems darker and appears to have
a lighter colour green
on the undersides. I'm sure the owner (Bruno?) and
Steve Pike must have
researched this to death but does anyone out there
have the story behind the
darker green?
Derek
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