Thanks Rich, excellent piece of well documented history! I'm sure if
the registries had this amount of information some of the keepers would
be looking for reimbursement from the major Healey clubs!
Kind regards
Ed
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
'65 BJ8 '89 Morgan 4/4
Rich C wrote:
> Subject: Re: Registry of Healeys...Is there more than one Registry?
>
>
>> Hi, Patrick -
>>
>> According to Chatter, April 1983, page 15: "The one and only BN3 has
>> been
>> found in the Orkneys, (a group of islands off Scotland)".
>> Since we know you have one, and this isn't it, it must be the "two and
>> only".
>> So there you have it -- you have captured 100% of the cars in your
>> registry
>> and your work is complete.
>> Glad to help!
>>
>> Steve Byers
>
>
> Not so fast, boys,
> Back in the mid 1980's Rick Regan and I found and retereived BN3/4 out
> of a cow pasture in Southern Ontario. Long story short, it now resides
> in England and appeared in all it's ugliness in Bill Emerson's book. It
> apparently was simply an engineeering exercise the Healeys did at
> Warwick to try out a few ideas. It has the following interesting features:
> - 21" space between the frame rails instead of the standard 17"
> - Morris 6 cylinder engine (as per early 100/Six)
> - Hydraulic clutch and brake cylinders suspended from above the pedal
> box on a specially fabricated bracket
> - Custom built alloy radiator stuffed forward of the engine in the
> angled area between bonnet flange and grille
> - 140 MPH speedometer
> - steel disc wheels
> - chassis stopped forward of the rear axle similar to Mk. 1 Sprite with
> half eliptic leaf springs to axle.
> - fuel tank over rear axle with quick fill cap similar to 100/S
> - extra body length in rear fenders let in immediately behind doors
> - door length 2" shorter than even a Hundred
> I took many pictures of this car as it sat in my driveway for a few
> weeks prior to arranging storage.
> When Geoff Healey was told of it's existence, he muttered his
> "disappointment" that someone had found it. It apparently was never
> originally intended to actually be fitted with a body, but once
> finished with it, was sold to an aquaintance with the understanding that
> they were never to have to see it or work on it again.
> The fact that it's fitted with a brass hand stamped Warwick tag with
> BN3/4, one wonders if there may have originally been BN3/1, BN3/2,
> BN3/3, and this BN3/4!
> Rich Chrysler
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