I have one of the few survivors. My Sportsmobile doesn't appear to have one
single part that is in common with any Austin Healey. These cars are the rarest
all the "production" Healey cars. I have not seen one Sportsmobile that is
close to original, however. All of the survivors (the German one, the Swiss
one, the Argentine one and mine) do not have original designed interiors either
old nor restored. All have updated tail lights too.Mine has a painted grill
because the previous owner was too cheap to rechrome it. All the others have
chrome grills. Mine does run well, however. I doing a show rerstoration on
mine.
Bob Denton
-----Original Message-----
From: davidwjones <davidwjones@cox.net>
Sent: Sep 10, 2004 9:50 AM
To: "Frenken, Eric" <efrenken@lctax.de>,
Blue One Hundred <international_investor@yahoo.com>,
healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Custom wire harnesses / Now:Sportsmobile
Eric,
-Thank you for solving a longstanding mystery for me. About 15 years ago, I
went to visit my sister in Panang Malaysia for several weeks. One afternoon on
our way to the Koo kong Si (sp?) temple, there was a "mystery car" parked on
the street along the way. Since the streets of Malaysia were filled with
British cars of all types, I was looking out for anything interesting.
I noticed that the car had many of the same fittings on it that my 62 BT7 had,
and stopped to really look it over. The more I looked, the more I found parts
in common with my Healey, -but no identifying name plates. I had forgotten
that one of the features I noted at the time was the "kite" shaped grille, and
eventually had decided that it was some Austin Princess variant. -But I just
checked out the picture link you sent, and there it was! Thanks for solving
the 15 year old mystery for me. I had no idea at the time I was looking at it,
that the car was something so rare!
I suppose at some point I really should read the sections on cars that Donald
built prior to the BN1, in all of those books I have, sometime!
David W. Jones
'62 Mk II BT7 tricarb
Cumberland, RI USA
----- Original Message -----
From: Frenken, Eric
To: Blue One Hundred ; healeys@autox.team.net
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 7:50 AM
Subject: Was: Custom wire harnesses / Now:Sportsmobile
Alan and all,
as far as I know 23 sportsmobiles were made. One of them (RHD) is just for
sale here in Germany. I've seen it shortly and it looks pretty reasonable,
though it could do well with a new paint job. Haven't checked the mechanics
and underneath. If anyone is interested I could make contact.
Pictures at
http://tinyurl.com/68t9x
Regards
Eric BT7
Heinsberg/Germany
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