Hello Gary,
Nice article. I did a bit of Googling on the RR engined Healey's.
Amazing what can be found there. I should have done that earlier.
Cheers,
Kees Oudesluijs
NL
gary brierton schreef:
> One final note...
> On the AHCA web site we have archived a bunch of information (and
> speculation) on the 4-eyed Healey
> http://www.healeyclub.org/healey-marque-four-light.aspx
> I have a folder full of correspondence with David Matthews and others
> who generally conclude that the present 4-eyed is a cobbled up
> machine, with bits and pieces of dubious Healey linage.
> By the way, one of the RR AH cars spent some time in Allen Hendrix's
> shop here in Greensboro, NC.
> I have enjoyed corresponding with you on this interesting bit of history
> GaryB
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Oudesluys" <coudesluijs@chello.nl>
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 6:32 AM
> To: "gary brierton" <gbrierton@hotmail.com>; "Healey List Emails"
> <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] 3000 MK2 Demonstration car Blue Don
>
> > Hello Garry,
> > You are right, I just found the article in Classic & Sports Car, July
> > 2007 (not as recent as I thought) on a metallic blue twin headlight
> car.
> > It claims that it is a 1960 Factory Competition Prototype with a De
> Dion
> > rear axle, telescopic shock absorbers, rack and pinion steering (any
> > idea what they used for this?). Chassis nr.: 012X300 and prototype
> > engine nr.: 1C.H.43761. The track was widened 4", with rather crudely
> > flared arches, not the body. This got me on the wrong track as I
> thought
> > it was one of the RR Healeys.
> > The RR Healey were indeed very nice looking cars with sumpsous
> > interiours. I only saw pictures of one, never seen one in the flesh.
> The
> > extra width suited them very well.
> > Kees Oudesluijs
> > NL
> >
> > gary brierton schreef:
> >> I think you are mixing up two Healey events. There were four RR
> >> Healeys, widened and modified in several ways. These were developed
> >> on MkIII's. They were beautiful, although the one I saw was white, my
> >> least favorite AH color. The four eyed AH was tried many years
> >> earlier, on a 100-6 and scrapped. A cobbled together 4-eyed AH, not
> >> the original has surfaced from time to time, but it is a complete,
> >> latter day creation of various AH parts. Even it's chassis has been
> >> questioned.
> >> GaryB
> >>
> >
> >
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