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The Mille Miglia article relates to the introduction of the 6 port head from
late 1957. A 100-Six with this head ran in the 57 Mille Miglia and dealers
in America made the connection and started to refer to the model as the
Mille Miglia although unfortunately BMC officially never did.
There is a reference in Bill Piggott's book about the 40 or 50 100-Sixs that
were fitted with 4 wheel disc brakes at the DHMC for homolgation purposes.
These were Dunlop brakes not Girling. Bill Piggott owned one registered XNX
56. Another one is featured on the home page of my web site and is
registered XNX 399. These both fit that timescale.
see www.healeysix.net
In addition Four wheel disc brakes were available as an option from the DHMC
and Hambro's in New York. Option lists for both can be see here
http://www.healeysix.net/Options.htm
It's not known how many cars were fitted with this option over the life of
the model. I know of one in Australia, but the 'official' 40 or 50 'factory'
cars were produced in November/Decemebr 1957.
hope this helps
Derek
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Eric (Rick) Wilkins <e-wilkins@cox.net>wrote:
> I just looked it up and found that article... Maybe I've been smoking too
> much crack. I'll find the reference somewhere...
>
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> On Apr 4, 2011, at 8:13 PM, gary brierton wrote:
>
> Road & Track, April, 1958, Pages 37-39. However, the authors make no
>> mention of disk brakes, front or 4-wheel. The pictures accompanying the
>> article seem to show 4-wheel drums!
>> I have a copy if you wish. I also see that my entire collection is
>> available on line at
>> http://www.amazon.com/Road-Track-Magazine-Testing-Austin-Healey/dp/B000VFOMIA
>> GaryB
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Eric (Rick) Wilkins
>> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 7:23 PM
>> Cc: healeys@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Disc Brakes on a 100/6
>>
>> Probably not something you didn't already know, but that was a major
>> feature of a "model" that called a "100 Six Mille Miglia" or something
>> like that. It was published in a magazine that I can't remember right
>> now.
>>
>> Wilko
>> San Diego
>> d
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