Rich C ... The winter in Toronto was a big surprise coming from England , it's
cold ... 1st January 1956 we watched the Pasadena Rose Bowl Parade , three
months later we where on our way to California , crossing the Bay bridge into
San Francisco , blue sky , sale boats out on the bay , this is Healey country .
We stopped in San Francisco , I got a mechanics job at the British car dealer
, we lived in Marin county and I crossed the Golden Gate bridge every day to
work in my BN4 ,with the top down ..
We never got to Pasadena ... Norman Nock
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--- On Thu, 1/15/09, Rich C <richchrysler@quickclic.net> wrote:
> From: Rich C <richchrysler@quickclic.net>
> Subject: [Healeys] Driving Healeys in winter!
> To: ahy3000@comcast.net, "R. Price Lindsay" <price@advocateadvisors.com>,
>"Quinn, Patrick" <Patrick.Quinn@det.nsw.edu.au>, "healeys"
><healeys@autox.team.net>
> Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 6:53 AM
> Many years ago out of necessity (my only wheels) I drove a
> '67 BJ8 through
> the winter of '74/'75. I'm talking a Southern
> Ontario winter, with lots of
> snow, salt, dampness and cold. Even though the car had been
> "Ziebarted"
> (remember them? they were a chain of stores who specialized
> in thorough rust
> proofing) I shudder to think of what the salt did to the
> car. That is the
> only part I truly regret.
> Anyway the top and seals fit reasonably well and with a 190
> degree
> thermostat, the heater was pretty good. The tires were a
> set of the Goodyear
> G800 redwalls (remember them? They were fitted to a lot of
> TR6's at the
> time) About the only thing that was not up to the job for
> winter driving
> were the "demister" vents. Just like the old
> Volkswagen beetles, you carried
> a hand scraper for scraping the inside as well as the
> outside of the glass.
> Traction and handling in slippery conditions was fantastic
> unless the snow
> was so deep you were plowing. I recall that at highway
> speeds in sub feezing
> temperatures, the heat inside gradually dissipated, but in
> town, things were
> very comfortable.
> It always took lots of choke to start from stone cold, but
> she always
> started. The choke remained on in varying amounts until the
> engine was fully
> heat saturated.
> Ah, the memories!
> I'm happy to say, the car was completely restored by a
> subsequent owner, and
> is still alive and well today.
>
> Rich Chrysler
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