Alan, Being an all LBC type of owner in the past and present, you bring up
all good points.
And all your points were major Mods on the Bs in order to make them owner
friendly.
If you owned the B for any length of time you probably already knew this.
Just like our Healeys, Most other LBC have their mods too.
Care to mention some of the good things about the B? You could start with
the rack and pinion
steering.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Seigrist" <healey.nut@gmail.com>
To: "Greg Lemon" <glemon@neb.rr.com>
Cc: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] 50 Best cars of The 60's
>I owned a rubber bumper B before I got my Healey. If you own a B, stop
> reading now.
>
> The thing was a complete piece of crap (sorry).
>
> 1) A-arm bushings usually lasted approximately 5K miles or less,
> 2) catalytic converter practically fried the whole car,
> 3) if the heater sprung a leak it would leak water all over the
> distributor
> and cause the car to stop running (!!!!),
> 4) zenith strombergs had an interesting quirk where they would catch fire
> from time to time, luckily I always carried a fire extinguisher
> 5) don't ever try to pass slow cars on a two lane road, as you will most
> certainly die when the oncoming semi, which you can see about half a mile
> away, runs you off the road because it will take you more than 15 seconds
> to
> pass an Isetta in a headwind.
>
>
> Alan
>
> '52 A90
> '53 BN1
> '64 BJ8
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Greg Lemon <glemon@neb.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Not to stir up a hornets nest but if you read the Road and Track
>> contemporary test of a later 3000 it mentions something about it being
>> time
>> for an Austin Healey "B"--don't get me wrong the big Healeys are all
>> great
>> cars, but the chassis/design was not exactly cutting edge at the time of
>> the
>> late production of the cars (or probably early production as well).
>>
>> Compared to other British sports cars of the era they are very beautiful
>> and they have more engine than most contemporary LBC cars, and that makes
>> them worth more on the collector market (IMHO), same apploes to the E
>> type.
>> Looks and motor matter more in the collector market than ergonomics and
>> day
>> to day livability.
>>
>> An MGB has better ergonomics and chassis than an big healey, but then
>> again
>> so do a lot of boring people haulers of the era.
>>
>> Depends on your criteria for "best"
>>
>> Regards, Greg Lemon (owned them both)
>>
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