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Our Mission: QUALITY ! To provide the highest quality restorations of Austin Healey and Jaguar vintage motor cars. Our company specializes in producing cars which are over restored, with the focus on quality in all aspects of the restoration process. Our quality cars are complete, nut and bolt restorations. This car was restored by our shop, completed for spring of 2013 delivery. It was built for a client from the DC area. He enjoyed the car for the past 18 months driving it regularly to winery tours, car shows, weekend touring and vintage car events. Due to limited garage space, and new Porsche coming home he has decided to let his Healey go to a new owner. I am the restorer of the car and handling the sale for the owner. The car will be back in my shop for complete service and a top to bottom detailing prior to the delivery to the new owner. This Austin Healey was the subject of complete ground up, nut and bolt, body off, bare metal restoration, by the Healey Marque specialists, of British Motor Corporation in Philadelphia, PA. Every aspect of the car was restored. The car has perfect lines and received numerous hidden upgrades to make it a superior cars for driving, weekend touring or vintage car events. This car is well sorted and tested, receiving 2900 miles since restoration. This is one of the finest Austin Healey's available anywhere. All cars of our cars are no excuse, investment grade, Heritage Certified, offerings. (The car was completely disassembled and restored, completed 3-2013. The folllowing discription was what was performed in 2013. ) OUR PROCESS: Body: Excellent Body was completely disassembled, all steel panels sand blasted or stripped to bare metal, alloy shrouds removed and stripped, any rust or deteriorating metal removed and correct replacement panels installed. Any patches installed were properly fitted using a butt welding method. Unlike many restorers, we do not, incorrectly overlap weld our patches unless the panel was installed in a overlap method by the original manufacturer. Body refit with excellent fitment. The result is perfect finish, gaps and presentation. Chassis: Excellent Chassis are stripped to bare metal using copper slag blasting. This method of paint removal insures the complete removal of rust. The chassis are fit into our chassis jig, measured and adjusted back to factory dimensions. All sills and floors panels were replaced with proper replacement panels imported from Austin Healey Spares of England. The chassis is measured again after welding, and body refit to insure nothing shifted during the welding process. Complete bare chassis is cosmetically adjusted and prepared for coating to insure a better than new finished product. The body is removed and re-fit to the chassis no less than six times during chassis restoration to insure proper fitment. This the only way to insure high quality fit and perfect panel gaps! Paint; Excellent Condition: This car is finished in the very attractive, Irish Mist Metallic. This was a color selected by Donald Healey near the end of his tenure with BMC. The color was used on one car as a test. The approval of the this color for production, was overruled by the Senior Management team ( Formerly Triumph Management ) as were most of Donalds suggestions. Donald Healey left the company shortly later. Chassis and body are painted using a high quality urethane base coat clear coat product. The high solid urethane base coat paint is produced by Herbert Standox of Germany. This product is know for exceptional consistency and perfect color match to the original Healey color pallet. It is also known as one of the most expensive automotive paints available today. The high solid urethane clear coat is produced by PPG and is one of the premier show grade finishes available today. The entire chassis, exterior body, interior body and engine bay have received the same high quality base coat clear coat finish. The exterior finish is hand blocked and polished to a glass like finish. The car is straight from all angles. The reflection when looking at all panels are perfect and glass like. Engine: General information! The difference between restoration and a Nut & Bolt Ground up restoration. A complete ground up restoration of a car should include the ground up restoration of the engine. Many old engines that sit without being run for years have a chemical reaction between the piston and the piston rings. The piston rings bond solid to the piston. The typical big Healey has 30 rings in the engine. Piston rings are a very important part of your compression. Their job is to contract and expand during each stroke of the piston. If one piston ring is
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