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[Healeys] Robin Williams was a Healey owner?

Subject: [Healeys] Robin Williams was a Healey owner?
From: healeyrik at gmail.com (HealeyRick)
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 08:56:36 -0500
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G'day Chris.

I started a thread on BCF on "Celebrity Healeys" that I later turned into
an article for *Healey Marque*:
http://www.britishcarforum.com/bcf/showthread.php?80993-Celebrity-Healeys&highlight=celebrity
 I try to keep the thread updated as I stumble across a new one.
Surprising what turns up, like your former PM, Paul Keating:
http://fasterlouder.junkee.com/paul-keating-was-a-teenage-rocknroller/834543

Happy Healeying,
Rick Neville

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:19 PM, Chris Dimmock <austin.healey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just read this from an old (1979) interview article with Robin Williams.
>
> "The externals of the Williams' lifestyle have changed surprisingly little
> since Mork. True, they moved from their rented beach apartment to a modest
> (by Hollywood standards) under $200,000 canyon home. Robin describes it as
> "rustic bordering on funk." Since his old Austin-Healey was stolen, he's
> bought a silver BMW. He also acquired a malamute, Sam, who visits the
> neighbors to watch TV (about all Williams watches is Taxi). On their acre
> of land, Robin and Valerie plan to add two dwarf goats to a burgeoning
> menagerie that now includes Polish chickens, Cora the parrot and Mr. I, the
> iguana who lives under the refrigerator (his companion, Truman Capote, has
> passed away). "My desire for material things is almost nonexistent," says
> Williams, who points out that his suburban Detroit upbringing as the son of
> a Ford Motor Co. exec accustomed him to comfort."
> http://www.robin-williams.net/interviews/mork/79-10.php
>
>
> Didn't know that!
> Anyone know more?
> Best
> Chris
>
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