After a few years with little progress on this complete rotisserie restoration, final body work and paint happened this fall. The 1957 100-6 now sports new Colorado Red paint with black coves, as original to this car. The paint turned out well. Now it's time for all the other assembly work.
In the collection of used parts, I have two sets of windshield posts in sound condition. One has the remnants of a silver colored finish - possibly similar to chrome, although it may never have been as shiny as chrome. The other has old paint on it - not red though, so it may have come from a different car. Looking at on line pictures and at several Healey resource books, I have found examples with silver colored windshield posts and examples with posts painted body color. I also recall reading discussions on this or other forums about whether the posts should be painted body color or silver (or chromed).
Can anyone provide more information about whether these posts always were body color or not, from the factory? Were some or all of the early Longbridge built cars different in this detail? Thanks for any help with this.
In the collection of used parts, I have two sets of windshield posts in sound condition. One has the remnants of a silver colored finish - possibly similar to chrome, although it may never have been as shiny as chrome. The other has old paint on it - not red though, so it may have come from a different car. Looking at on line pictures and at several Healey resource books, I have found examples with silver colored windshield posts and examples with posts painted body color. I also recall reading discussions on this or other forums about whether the posts should be painted body color or silver (or chromed).
Can anyone provide more information about whether these posts always were body color or not, from the factory? Were some or all of the early Longbridge built cars different in this detail? Thanks for any help with this.