John,
Your car is absolutely correct. The choke under the dash wasa direct carry
over from the 100-Six. Soon after, an electric thermal choke was introduced
into the early 3000. This did not last long and they returned to a manual
choke cable arrangement, but for the first time, it was dash mounted.
Congrats on what sounds like a really neat car.
Rich Chrysler
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Snyder" <helyjohn@cablespeed.com>
To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 12:46 PM
Subject: Choke location/history
> Hello List,
>
> I am about to start on the ground up restoration of HBN7L-605, an early
> 1959
> BN7. The BMIHT certificate checks out. The choke control on this car is
> mounted in a bracket that is fastened to the brace that goes between the
> firewall and the bottom of the instrument panel just to the right of the
> steering column. The Anderson/Moment book refers to "manual choke mounted
> under the dash", and the Clausager book says "choke control now on main
> fascia
> panel" effective w/ C.BN7/5234. I just want to be sure that the mounting
> on
> this car is correct.
>
> This car may have some interest for those of you who were in California
> and
> involved w/ Healeys/racing in the 1960s. The car was purchased new by
> Allen
> Grant in 1959 in Fresno. (Allen went on to become a factory driver for
> Shelby
> and drove a Cobra in the 1965 Le Mans race.) He autocrossed it and sold
> it to
> Bob Darby who raced it in California SCCA events and then sold it to Jerry
> Satnat. At some point, Allen bought the car back from Jerry and put in
> dry
> storage. In 1979 Mike Garrison in Modesto bought the car from Allen and
> put
> in dry storage until I bought it in 2006. The car is a restorer's dream.
> NO
> rust, NO dents, perfect panel fit. I am going to have fun w/ this
> project.
> When my wife saw the car in my shop she said "This is the first time you
> did
> not bring a piece of junk home."
>
> By a stroke of luck, I discovered that Allen Grant now lives 26 miles from
> me
> in Northwest WA. He is now a distributor for Roush Performance and has an
> original Shelby Cobra race car. He is going to come over and see his old
> Healey, Neat, huh?
>
> John Snyder
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