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General Category => Healey Sports Cars => Topic started by: HealeyRick on December 18, 2018, 05:51:15 PM

Title: Louver Update
Post by: HealeyRick on December 18, 2018, 05:51:15 PM
Been a bit dead in the Healey section so I thought I'd put up some pictures of my louvers in their final configuration.  I tried getting away with just painting the hood with the same color code used when the car was restored but it's going to need some adjustment.

(https://vgy.me/Heno8s.jpg)
Title: Re: Louver Update
Post by: rficalora on December 18, 2018, 06:26:58 PM
Hood looks great.  Never seen a paint code for modern paint be that far off!!  I'm thinking either to code was wrong or it was mixed wrong.
Title: Re: Louver Update
Post by: spridget on December 19, 2018, 07:21:15 AM
Very nice.
Title: Re: Louver Update
Post by: HealeyRick on July 05, 2019, 02:59:19 PM
Rob,

Turns out you were right.  Took the bonnet to a hot rod paint shop that said they could do a better color match.  They mixed up the paint to the code and without any tinting got a match. This is the result

(http://i65.tinypic.com/n1qnis.jpg)

Apparently, the original paint supplier mixed the formula wrong.
Title: Re: Louver Update
Post by: Jim Stabe on July 06, 2019, 12:10:47 PM
Much better.
Title: Re: Louver Update
Post by: rficalora on July 06, 2019, 02:09:19 PM
Yep, definitely way better.  Looks good now