- 41. Proper BJ 7 Top Install (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:50:48 -0500
- Hi Lony, The rear bow of the BJ 7 has a wide flange rivetted to it. This is of a complex cross section incorporating a channel that locates over the bow, and tapers at both ends. This flange has thre
- /html/healeys/2006-03/msg00537.html (8,280 bytes)
- 42. Door stitching colour query (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:39:55 -0500
- Door- or any kind of- stitching was never treated as a highlight like piping. It always matched the colour of the material being stitched. Being cotton thread, it faded to off-white, making it look
- /html/healeys/2006-02/msg00245.html (7,634 bytes)
- 43. Fw: Door stitcking colour query (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:54:09 -0500
- Sorry, skipped a word: Should read: "Black seats were only introduced on the RED six-cylinder Healeys with the BJ 7 model." Of course the Primrose single-tone and Ivory cars had black seats. Peter
- /html/healeys/2006-02/msg00248.html (6,597 bytes)
- 44. Door stitching colour query Black interiors (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 13:56:36 -0500
- Right, John. Black seats in red cars were not available from 1957 to 1962. The four cylinder BN2's did have black seats available on Reno Red single-tone (only) cars according to both Clausager and P
- /html/healeys/2006-02/msg00252.html (7,635 bytes)
- 45. Door stitching colour query Black interiors (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 15:17:08 -0500
- Right, I remember it. I was typing faster than thinking, and had only Bill Piggots book in front of me, which clearly states only red interiors for a Carmine car. Clausager's book has black as well
- /html/healeys/2006-02/msg00255.html (7,639 bytes)
- 46. Door stitching colour query (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:05:15 -0500
- Red, or the reddish-orange seats also called "red" on the build sheets, had matching red piping regardless of whether the exterior colour was Carmine or Reno. Certainly it was typical. The same colo
- /html/healeys/2006-02/msg00259.html (7,296 bytes)
- 47. Sprite Questions (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:18:22 -0500
- While Clausager did write the Big Healey book in the the wonderful, authoritative, "Original" series of restorer's guides, the book referred to by Rich, called " Original Sprite & Midget" is actually
- /html/healeys/2006-02/msg00335.html (7,209 bytes)
- 48. Tonneau rail too long (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:09:53 -0500
- Hi John, All 6 cyl roadster Healeys used a ONE PIECE tonneau rail. On Longbridge BN4's the bar (14B 7837) fitted over top of two short locating tubes bolted to the wheelarch. On Abingdon BN4's the to
- /html/healeys/2006-02/msg00631.html (8,193 bytes)
- 49. Tonneau rail too long. (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:10:30 -0500
- Forgot. Width of tonneau bar is 46" centre to centre, or whatever your distance between the large sockets ended up as, post-restoration. And, MGB bags- Hardura, Healey bags- Armacord.
- /html/healeys/2006-02/msg00635.html (6,361 bytes)
- 50. Tonneau rail too long (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:20:01 -0500
- John, If you're happy with the curve of the bar, and don't have access to a welder, I'd be inclined to do a "dry" fix. Cut it in half, fit both halves into their sockets so they overlap, mark one aga
- /html/healeys/2006-02/msg00677.html (7,697 bytes)
- 51. Early Colors (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:19:50 -0500
- Looking through the color chip library at www.AutocolorLibrary.com brought up this page: http://autocolorlibrary.com/cgi-bin/search/searchpic.pl?1955-ahmg-pg11.jpg It shows THREE shades of Healey Blu
- /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00641.html (7,226 bytes)
- 52. Heritage Certificate vs Originality (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:46:28 -0500
- Rich- just curious about your Feb./60 delete date for Primrose. The centershift fiberglass tunnel came in in Nov./61 . The factory parts list has AHB 9341 as centershift tunnel carpet assembly- "blac
- /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00861.html (8,157 bytes)
- 53. Heritage Certificate vs Originality Yellow (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:22:06 -0500
- The centershift transmission had been fitted to the Mk II roadsters for some 7 months before the introduction of the BJ 7 in the late summer of 62. The centershift roadster interior trim was carried
- /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00866.html (7,386 bytes)
- 54. Coffee Table Book (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:56:28 -0500
- I'm not sure I would say a Nash-Healey looked like an A-40, (maybe the A-40 Sports?) but Panelcraft Sheet Metal Ltd. of Birmingham bodied the 100 export-only Nash-Healeys and the 25 home-market Alvi
- /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00881.html (6,640 bytes)
- 55. Paint on lower Rear Shroud (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:18:27 -0400
- Hello Bob, I'm attaching a picture of an all-original '62 BT 7 showing its black-painted lower rear shroud flange. Best regards Peter [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had
- /html/healeys/2006-04/msg00403.html (7,640 bytes)
- 56. Paint on Lower Rear Shroud (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:33:13 -0400
- As were the flanges which take the Furflex door seals, especially at the corners, that showed between panels, BN 6/7 battery compartment flanges, flange locating the rear edge of the rear quarter pan
- /html/healeys/2006-04/msg00418.html (8,938 bytes)
- 57. BJ 7 SEAT BACK WON'T FOLD FLAT (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:16:50 -0500
- Hi Scott, The BJ 7 rear seat back does not fold flat. It only tips forward slightly to allow a bit of "fiddle room" to stow the top. The simple hinges bolt straight to the car, no wooden strip. The m
- /html/healeys/2006-03/msg00647.html (6,951 bytes)
- 58. Unknown (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:31:50 -0500
- You appear to have a pair of inner upper door liners for a four-cylinder. Checking my patterns gives a length of 26" (parallelogram shape) and a width of 6 1/4" with three holes on the bottom edge.
- /html/healeys/2006-03/msg00655.html (7,205 bytes)
- 59. Red/ Black 6cyl Cars (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:31:49 -0400
- Students of the marque enjoy finding exceptions to the run of the mill production stuff, more than just about anything else. This Heritage Certificate black interior was ordered IN HOUSE by BMC's own
- /html/healeys/2006-05/msg00672.html (7,402 bytes)
- 60. Car Quiz (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:35:13 -0400
- The lovely Swallow Doretti was made from early 1954 to Feb. '55. The equally lovely Dorothy Deen was the enthusiastic promoter of the car in the US. She also contributed the car's name, with an Itali
- /html/healeys/2006-07/msg00276.html (8,661 bytes)
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