One of the things that struck me as odd at the time, was that the car in
Malaysia was such a big car... Most of the cars there have are small (lots of
original Coopers) and that this thing was orders of magnitude bigger than my
"big" Healey.
Who knows? 15 years is a long time.
David W. Jones
'62 Mk II BT7 tricarb
Cumberland, RI USA
----- Original Message -----
From: R. Denton
To: davidwjones
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: Custom wire harnesses / Now:Sportsmobile
David,
Did you look at the picture of the dash on the German website? Ther guages
are nothing like the AH. It may have been a Duncan or one of the others he
built prior to the Sportsmobile. The sportsmobile has no chrome bits other
than grille, badging and license plate light/lock unit. This car is huge in
size too. Nothing like a Healey. I have a gold level concours BN6 also.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: davidwjones <davidwjones@cox.net>
Sent: Sep 10, 2004 10:35 AM
To: "R. Denton" <foxriverkid@earthlink.net>, healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Custom wire harnesses / Now:Sportsmobile
Hmmm.
The car I saw in Malaysia (whatever it was!) had a lot of the same parking
and brake light assy's and the same steering wheel and some chrome trim bits
that my BT7 has..... and I think if I remember correctly, it had some similar
dashboard components. (maybe I'll never know what it was.... (Mongrel??)). -Or
maybe it was altered, as you said.
David W. Jones
'62 Mk II BT7 tricarb
Cumberland, RI USA
----- Original Message -----
From: R. Denton
To: davidwjones ; Frenken,Eric ; Blue One Hundred ; healeys@autox.team.net
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: Custom wire harnesses / Now:Sportsmobile
I have one of the few survivors. My Sportsmobile doesn't appear to have
one single part that is in common with any Austin Healey. These cars are the
rarest all the "production" Healey cars. I have not seen one Sportsmobile that
is close to original, however. All of the survivors (the German one, the Swiss
one, the Argentine one and mine) do not have original designed interiors
either old nor restored. All have updated tail lights too.Mine has a painted
grill because the previous owner was too cheap to rechrome it. All the others
have chrome grills. Mine does run well, however. I doing a show rerstoration
on mine.
Bob Denton
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