Austin Healey 3000 Mk II Sales Brochure

[Fairview]

It took a little bit of work, but I was able to find an original sales brochure for the 3000 MK II. It arrived in the mail last night, so I wanted to share it with you all.

Also, just to let you know, with the brochure came an original factory parts manual with schematic diagrams for the 100-6, 3000, and BJ7. The detail in the diagrams is really helpful. If anybody needs a scan of a particular page, just let me know.

Jeff


Hope you enjoy this:


Here is a link:

Austin Healey 3000 Mk II Sales Brochure

And here are a couple sample pages:

 

[EV2239]

Lovely to see it Jeff, especially for us fans of the IIA. Here's my old bus waiting to get into the body shop.

Ash

 

[AUSMHLY]

I thought I'd read somewhere that no matter what the color of the interior was, the dash and the top of the door panel was always black. Yet the photo of the red interior show that not to be so. Hummm

 

[Bob_Spidell]

I thought I'd read somewhere that no matter what the color of the interior was, the dash and the top of the door panel was always black. Yet the photo of the red interior show that not to be so. Hummm

The image on the bottom-left of the first page shows that (black top of door panel). My guess is the illustrator got lazy, or forgot, on the second interior drawing.

 

[richberman]

Nice.
I like the tan armacord with the green paint....
rich

 

[Editor_Reid]

The sales literature is not a reliable guide to originality. They took many liberties, presumably to make the brochures look better, more colorful and more exciting.

If you're interested in originality, do not use sales literature colors as a reference.

 

[AH3000MkIII]

I have a few of these brochures, both US and UK versions, and it's interesting to compare them side by side, as they changed very little... Minor reworks of the images, and a few tweaks to the wording to suit the spec for the intended market. The most obvious changes from the BJ7 brochures to the BJ8 was the interiors and the picture of the engine. Is there a definitive list anywhere of all known healey brochures against publication number? i.e. 2035/K etc....

 

[John Turney]

The sales literature is not a reliable guide to originality. They took many liberties, presumably to make the brochures look better, more colorful and more exciting.

If you're interested in originality, do not use sales literature colors as a reference.

That's good; I was afraid I would have to paint my valve cover red. :eeek:

 

[Fairview]

The sales literature is not a reliable guide to originality. They took many liberties, presumably to make the brochures look better, more colorful and more exciting.

If you're interested in originality, do not use sales literature colors as a reference.

That's good; I was afraid I would have to paint my valve cover red. :eeek:

So all this stuff in the sales brochure isn't true?! Dang, I was looking forward to learning how to play polo...

 

[Editor_Reid]

The sales literature is not a reliable guide to originality. They took many liberties, presumably to make the brochures look better, more colorful and more exciting.

If you're interested in originality, do not use sales literature colors as a reference.

That's good; I was afraid I would have to paint my valve cover red. :eeek:

You know, it might be fun if someone actually painted their Healey like one of the wilder combos shown in the sales literature.

You go first

 

[healey106]

Is there a definitive list anywhere of all known healey brochures against publication number? i.e. 2035/K etc....
_________________________
1965 UK RHD BJ8 Phase 2a (in bits!)

Actually the best literature list, currently available, but has not been updated since 2005, is what was compiled by Bob Haskell at
www.team.net/www/healey/autobila/sales.html

check it out

jim

 

[Fairview]

I thought I'd read somewhere that no matter what the color of the interior was, the dash and the top of the door panel was always black. Yet the photo of the red interior show that not to be so. Hummm

The image on the bottom-left of the first page shows that (black top of door panel). My guess is the illustrator got lazy, or forgot, on the second interior drawing.

Bob,

Per the factory service parts list and diagrams AKD3307, the top of the door panel is called the "Roll Assembly", and was supplied in red, blue, black, and grey. Part numbers began at AHB9748 through AHB9755.

The dash top is referred to as "Liner assembly- scuttle top" and was supplied as red with black piping, red with white piping, blue with white piping, black with white piping, grey with green piping (!), and grey with red piping (!). Part numbers are AHB9696 through AHB9701.

This applies to the BJ7. Could the BJ8 have only been supplied in black?

Hope this clarifies, at least for the BJ7.

Jeff

 

[Bob_Spidell]

Bob,

Per the factory service parts list and diagrams AKD3307, the top of the door panel is called the "Roll Assembly", and was supplied in red, blue, black, and grey. Part numbers began at AHB9748 through AHB9755.

The dash top is referred to as "Liner assembly- scuttle top" and was supplied as red with black piping, red with white piping, blue with white piping, black with white piping, grey with green piping (!), and grey with red piping (!). Part numbers are AHB9696 through AHB9701.

This applies to the BJ7. Could the BJ8 have only been supplied in black?

Hope this clarifies, at least for the BJ7.

Jeff

Dunno. My BJ8's 'roll assembly' and 'liner assembly' are all black. No piping on the liner--not sure where it would go--but I think it might have been replaced (it's in pretty good shape for a car with 170K+ miles).

Thanks for the info; those terms are new to me.

 

[AH3000MkIII]

Bob,

Per the factory service parts list and diagrams AKD3307, the top of the door panel is called the "Roll Assembly", and was supplied in red, blue, black, and grey. Part numbers began at AHB9748 through AHB9755.

The dash top is referred to as "Liner assembly- scuttle top" and was supplied as red with black piping, red with white piping, blue with white piping, black with white piping, grey with green piping (!), and grey with red piping (!). Part numbers are AHB9696 through AHB9701.

This applies to the BJ7. Could the BJ8 have only been supplied in black?

Hope this clarifies, at least for the BJ7.

Jeff

Dunno. My BJ8's 'roll assembly' and 'liner assembly' are all black. No piping on the liner--not sure where it would go--but I think it might have been replaced (it's in pretty good shape for a car with 170K+ miles).

Thanks for the info; those terms are new to me.

Some of this may have been erroneous information as well though, as the factory parts lists have inaccuracies, moreso depending upon which edition you look at. My 1969 body service parts list lists red, blue, black and grey for dash tops (no mention of piping as they don't have any) with part numbers AHB 9696 - 9699. They are also marked as 'revised information'. The door roll tops are as listed above.
For the BJ8 the dash top and door roll tops were only available in black, the dash top was AHB 6333, and the door rolls were AHB 6346 (RH) and AHB 6347 (LH).

 

[Fairview]

Bob,

Here are the pages I'm referring to. I wish I had this factory parts book for the BJ8- and a BJ8 to go with it!

Jeff

 

[me61ic]

My BJ7 was white (exterior) / red (interior) acording to Heritage. It was sometime during its life changed to red (exterior) / black (interior).

Now that I have started its restoration (I may have to quit it but that is another story) the ivory white has come out in the inner parts of the body panels and also the liner assemblies for both the doors and the scuttle were just repadded with black vinyl and the original red is still under them

 

[Fairview]

I found another one of these brochures, in slightly better condition, so I posted this one in our BCF classifieds. Thought some of you BJ7 folks might be interested. Thanks, Jeff

 

[Fairview]

I found another one of these brochures, in slightly better condition, so I posted this one in our BCF classifieds. Thought some of you BJ7 folks might be interested. Thanks, Jeff

Brochure is sold, going to a good home- thanks

 

[davidb]

Looking at the brochure, I wish the BMC folks would have continued the BJ7 door panel with the slot for maps, hair, lint etc. right thru the BJ8 model. I guess they figured the glove box with the outrageously costly lock was sufficient......Similar to (unfortunately) deleting the "cubby box" on later BJ8s, which seemed to be a good idea, at least to me.

The tan armacord in the brochure trunk is interesting. I note that AH Spares in UK does carry red and blue armacord, as well as black. No tan.

My two cents.

 

[bob hughes]

Just to throw in my two pennyworth into the hat.

My BJ7 was originally black with red interior now it is red with black interior. There is still evidence of the original black in A1 condition behind the armacord in the boot and on the wings behind the headlamp bowls.



Bob