Not quite Healey related, none entered but the exploits of this Rally are too
goodB not to read.
http://www.pekingparis.com/reports.shtml
An excerpt from
the Day 3 Report:
"One of the most extraordinary stories to emerge was the
effort of the
Australians in the big Austin Sheerline. This car runs a
four-litre version of
the Austin Healey engine, originally designed for
trucks and combine harvesters,
and it ran its big end bearings yesterday. A
workshop was found, and the bottom
end of the engine stripped apart, to
reveal a badly scored crankshaft, and
wrecked shell-bearings. These were
shimmed up and put back on with the crank
having received much filing and
polish with emery paper. To fill the gap b shims
were made on the spot. One
big-end was made out of cutting a strip out the side
of a Sprite Lemonade
can, and another was shimmed using the wafer thin aluminium
from a cigarette
packet. With this handywork, the engine was put back together
and it drove
into Mongolia under its own power this morning. Norman Brice and
Colin Ryan
deserve medals for this initiative of ace fettling.
Emjoy the read, the
Rally ends October 16th in Paris having started in Peking on
September 10th.
Bob
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