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 Matt (Tubster), the design of the Nash Healey is something special. Thanks for sharing.
Posted on: 2017/3/16 1:37
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JW, This is not the black car. We restored this car in 2003 and its color is supposed to be 37 Packard Maroon, but its closer to 41 Packard Maroon. It looks like Hershey chocolate brown in the day light.
Posted on: 2017/3/16 11:11
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Thanks. Looked black but now I see the maroon on the front fender.
JWL
Posted on: 2017/3/16 15:45
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Your Nash-Healey appears to be a series II car. Series I was slightly different with a very different windshield. I have 8 x 10 photos of the original prototype for series I that I have have had since the 1970s. I knew the designer.
By the way, in the Packard items auctioned in 2014 when the Mitchell Museum (as in Mitchell-Bentley) closed, there were photos of a metallic green Nash-Healey. I also have those photos. Mitchell-Bentley claimed to have involvement with the car. Photo was claimed to be prototype. You will note that this windshield frame is slightly different from your production model. I have quite a few Nash-Healey items saved over the years. Here is one of the original photos of the series II green car from Mitchell-Bentley (same folks who worked on Packard Balboa, Panthers, Caribbeans etc.). By the way, this photo was taken in the 1950s and was claimed to be a prototype Nash-Healey series II. Uh... the green color (so I was told by Bill Mitchell in the 1970s) is the same that Mitchell-Bentley used on the 1953 Caribbean. Hmmmm. Attach file:  (158.95 KB)
Posted on: 2017/3/17 12:38
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And, here is yet another series II Nash-Healey I photographed in Scottsdale, Arizona a few years ago. White color was claimed to be original.
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Posted on: 2017/3/17 13:18
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Leeedy, I don't think that the green on the car ever went into production. The first photo does not show the car in its best light. It would not surprise me if MB had a lot to do with the design. Those were some exciting times.
Posted on: 2017/3/17 13:43
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Back to the Caribbean. As you may notice the drivers door is roached. I believe this maybe what took the car off the road in the mid sixties.
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Posted on: 2017/3/17 13:59
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Yes, but all the more reason why I chose to show you this green car photo. And again, it was not stated to me that it was a Nash-Healey color, but rather I was told it was the same color M-B used on the Caribbean. And yes, the camera angle here (and perhaps the lens) appears to be compressing the Nash-Healey, making it look a bit stubby. But again, doubt if anyone ever saw this photo before. Another thing that makes the shot unusual is showing the car with the top in raised position. Rarely ever seen. Anyway... for what it's worth.
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