Jerry,
Thank you for the advice on keeping at it.
I can't speak for the top frame that you refer to as having been "not a healey
frame". --But the BN4 frame I have is pictured and described in the Anderson
Moment Restoration Guide as correct and original for the BN4 - complete with
the bent legs which locate in the front mounting holes. I also believe that it
was Rich Chrysler who informed me some time ago, that the top frame that I
have is for the BN4.
Perhaps there was a miscommunication? Or yours was different somehow?
David W. Jones
'62 Mk II BT7 tricarb
Cumberland, RI USA
----- Original Message -----
From: Jerry Costanzo
To: davidwjones
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: BN4 BT7 Top Frames
David, keep asking the list. I traded a frame about two years ago with a
lister. I had the BT7 frame, and he had the BN4. It will pop up
eventually. Now I have an extra BN4 just like yours that fits in the
hardtop hole. David Nock told me that it was not a Healey frame. He has
one just like it in his shop. Maybe these are aftermarket?
Jerry
BN4
Bj8 (still in boxes)
----- Original Message -----
From: "davidwjones" <davidwjones@cox.net>
To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:16 AM
Subject: BN4 BT7 Top Frames
>I have a BN4 convertible top frame (with the bent legs, which share the
>small,
> forward mounting holes on the car with the locating pins for the factory
> hardtop).
>
> What I need, is the correct straight legged convertible top frame for the
> BT7.
> (That mounts in the rearward holes in the car, shared by the tonneau
bar).
>
> The BN4 top frame that I have is in excellent condition, (was bead
> blasted,
> primered, sanded, and finished in the appropriate dove gray) -It's ready
> to
> go.
>
> What I would like to do is to work out a trade for the correct BT7 top
> frame.
> -As long as the BT7 top frame is complete, and needs cleaning and
> repainting,
> I would consider that a good trade.
>
> Barring that, I would be interested in selling the BN4 top frame, and
> hearing
> from anyone who has a BT7 top frame to sell.
>
> I am also interested in any opinions as to the relative value or scarcity
> of
> the two different frames, for as far as I know, they should be roughly
> equivalent in value. -But then, I've been wrong before.
>
> David W. Jones
> '62 Mk II BT7 tricarb
> Cumberland, RI USA
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