Just to add in my two cents about the "M" models, I guess I own the
earliest M of all. According to my Body Production Card, Form 141, C.A.B.
Serial
#146497(hand written in), my car is actually a B.M.1., H.P. of 16, Body No.
598(hand written in), Body Type, HEALEY SPORTS.
It's build date is 29 October 1953. I'm sure the B.M.1. is a typo on
the card, but I I guess that make it an M non the less.
Steven Kingsbury
BM1 #598
In a message dated 11/10/2009 5:24:48 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
kentmclean@comcast.net writes:
Patrick Quinn wrote:
> I just have to keep reminding you blokes that the cars you own are not
"REAL
> Healeys", they are Austin-Healeys.
>
> While the Austin-Healey 100 is most certainly the purest to the original
> design it is still an Austin-Healey.
But for one brief, shining moment, the car stood on a stand at Earl's
Court in
1952 as a Healey 100 -- no hyphen, no Austin. Then Leonard Lord got to
DMH, and
it became an Austin-Healey. So the Healey 100, at least that one example,
is a
"REAL Healey". The thousands that followed are Austin-Healeys. I have one
of the
rare non-M models. :)
--
Kent McLean
'56 100 BN2
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