Thanks Bill, I really enjoy the side notes of Healey history.
Particularly the non BMC involved parts.
Sorry it didn't make it to the race, I found a picture of it from a
previous year at VIR online after I posted.
I look forward to the time I get to see the museum!
On 6/14/07, OldHealeys@aol.com <OldHealeys@aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 6/8/2007 1:21:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> 57healey@gmail.com writes:
> ...it show two races where
> Cadilac Healeys made the podium. A driver named Walters drove a Cadillac
> Healey to the win in the 1950 Seneca Cup Race and a driver named Cunningham
> (could that be Briggs?) placed second in the 1950 Watkins Glen Grand Prix
>
> This car is now owned by Allan Casavant from "The Healey Museum". It raced
> at VIR Gold Cup last weekend, but blew the clutch during the second days
> practice...
>
> This was the ONLY Healey Silverstone delivered without an engine. It was
> shipped to Briggs Cunningham (a good friend of Donald Healey) in 1949 and
> has been a race car ever since. (Powered by a Cadillac engine from new).
>
> Bill Emerson
> Curator, The Healey Museum
>
>
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1957 Austin-Healey 100-Six "Built to run 'til the road wears out."
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