Curt, thanks for that.
You guys (You, Rich, John, Roger, and too many others to name) have
looked at so many cars, and done so much research. The rest of us
generally have juat one car to look at closely, and only the books you
guys have contributed your knowledge too
This list is an awesome repository of knowledge.
50. Wow.
I forgot about the bonnet.
Yes. Keiths car (my old BN1) had one too. Bloody funny, when I had the
chassis restored, the guy wanted to straighten the shrould support
bracket, and weld up the cit and bent X brace....
;-)
Sincerely.
Chris
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On 16/07/2011, at 12:27 AM, "Curt/Nancy Arndt" <cnaarndt at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Listers,
>
> It was more than the first 20 cars that were all aluminum
> (Birmabright to be exact) but not much more. Blair Harbor's car,
> the first production AH with body no. 24, was all aluminum and the
> rumor was that the first 50 were too, but this has yet to be
> confirmed. We have confirmed that from body number 50 on they were
> steel bodies with the aluminum boot and bonnet, but there just
> doesn't see m to be a lot of production cars surviving prior to no.
> 50.
>
> What we do believe is that most of the first 300 cars or so were
> painted Healey Blue or Grey.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Curt :;{)
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Chris Dimmock <austin.healey at gmail.com
> > wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that was only the first 20 DHMCo cars that were all
> aluminium, but I'm going from memory.
> Most "early" cars had aluminium bootlids - my old BN1 152199 (Spruce
> Green, and since superbly restored by Keith, on this list) was about
> the 12th BN1 imported into Australia, and had the aluminium bootlid,
> adjustable column and one piece dash.
> British Heritage even put that on the certificate I got back when a
> Anders did the certificates himself.
> Which effectively makes it a "later earlier car"
> ;-)
> Chris
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> On 15/07/2011, at 5:45 PM, Derek Job <derek.c.job at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Weren't the first few hundred 100s still aluminium?
>
> Derek
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Mr. Finespanner <
> mrfinespanner at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> According to the numbers this was the 120th Healey 100 built.
> Doug Reid, 18G Motorworks
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