Funny you say that. My daughter Healey (age 13), helped on the second trip
during the retrieval. She helped load boxes of parts and even drove the
riding lawn mower that towed the car (with me steering) up into the garage.
The Millers
"British Car Nuts"
> From: lapierrem@sbcglobal.net
> To: stmiller96@hotmail.com; j.aeckerlin@gmail.com; healeys@autox.team.net
> Subject: A Marque mag. Article
> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:47:29 -0400
>
> Or if you have a future 50er still at home why not let them write it up or
> at least take a few pics. Or even
> a wife could help. Think of the anticipation they would have waiting for
> the article to come out in print.
> I think I just gave myself a great idea, now if I can just come up with an
> idea to get a daughter interested
> in this stuff it may spark an interest for her. Maybe a "makeup mirror"
> modification for the car or designer
> interior redo.
>
> Mark
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "S and T Miller" <stmiller96@hotmail.com>
> To: <j.aeckerlin@gmail.com>; <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 8:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] BT7 The Netherlands
>
>
> > Thanks all for the e-mails. It appears that the speedo and the oil/ temp
> > gauges are missing- someone along the way thought they were cool. I may
> > just
> > write something up and send it to the Marque (with pics). Thanks again.
> >
> > The Millers
> > "British Car Nuts"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:17:05 +0200
> > Subject: Re: [Healeys] BT7 The Netherlands
> > From: j.aeckerlin@gmail.com
> > To: stmiller96@hotmail.com; healeys@autox.team.net
> >
> > Shawn,
> > As you can imagine R.S. Stokvis & Zonen was at the time the official
> > importer
> > for Austin in The Netherlands. As far as I know the AH's for the Dutch
> > market
> > had their steering wheel on the left, a speedo in kilometers (KPH) and an
> > oil
> > pressure/water temp gauge in kilograms per square centimeter/ degrees
> > Celcius.
> > No special pedal arrangement for driving with wooden shoes....
> > Good luck with the restoration!
> > Regards, Jack Aeckerlin, The Netherlands
> > 1964 BJ8 29432
> >
> >
> > 2010/6/23 S and T Miller <stmiller96@hotmail.com>
> >
> > Just picked up today a 1961 AH 3000 BT7 that was in a barn for 23 years as
> > an
> > abandoned restro project. The BMIHT says it was delivered to Stokvis and
> > Zonen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Could it have been brought to the USA
> > by
> > a
> > service person? Was this typically the case? Anything really different
> > about
> > a Netherlands car? KMP vs. MPH?
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