{"id":498,"date":"2020-09-05T10:31:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T17:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/?p=498"},"modified":"2020-09-05T20:15:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T03:15:58","slug":"another-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/2020\/09\/05\/another-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER MILESTONE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, the RHD BN2 chassis is now at the body\/paint shop for rust repair and paint.\u00a0 We finished stripping it in about four three-day stints, which I thought was pretty good.\u00a0 Here’s the scene as we departed Kent’s place for the shop in Eugene, about 175 miles away.<\/h2>\n

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Why did we select a shop so far away?\u00a0 Easy.\u00a0 This is the shop that was used by our dear departed friend John Wilson, and is still used by his son Robert – now running John’s Healey restoration business, Healey Lane in Marcola, Oregon.\u00a0 The owner of the body shop stated that he has done over 50 Healeys, and so he knows the cars and the parts sources.\u00a0 That’s definitely worth a lot.<\/h2>\n

The shop owner estimated that we could potentially get the car back by Halloween, so in the meantime we have already begun the process of cleaning and prepping all the stuff we removed, getting it ready for reinstallation.\u00a0 Then the chassis goes back to the shop for fitting the outer body, and so it’s looking quite possible that we’ll have it done in the spring.\u00a0 It will be Carmine Red with a black interior, as original, and with the car’s documented provenance, we’re anticipating that the result will be a really spectacular historical example.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, the RHD BN2 chassis is now at the body\/paint shop for rust repair and paint.\u00a0 We finished stripping it in about four three-day stints, which I thought was pretty good.\u00a0 Here’s the scene as we departed Kent’s place for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}