Yes, Phil raced the #105 car, and Dan Pendergraft raced the #106 car.
Neither of those cars were "Works" cars, or "BMC" race cars, but #106 was
made up from many Works spares.
But Phil also owned both 56FAC and 57FAC which were Roger Menadue prepared,
"Works" race cars. (Not to be confused with BMC rallye cars). 56FAC had race
history at Sebring, 57FAC was the back up car, and did not race. 57FAC did
end up in Canada for a period of time, but is not the car for sale in the
advertisement. They were very light, and very fast.
Phil did vintage race 56FAC for a short while, but then built the #105 car
because of 56FAC's value. Fourintune restored both 56FAC (a light
restoration) and 57FAC full restoration. Phil gave me the roll bar from
57FAC that was in it from its time in Canada, as well as the fuel cell.
57FAC was sold at auction for what was then the highest amount ever paid for
a Healey.
WST
-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at
autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of I Erbs
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 6:59 PM
To: Shop at Just Brits
Cc: Forum
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Canadian 'Vintage' race Healey for Auction
Phil used to race a red car with white hard top in the
70's.Don't remember the plate #. We used to work on it at Austin
Healey Enterprises
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Shop at " Just Brits "
<shop at justbrits.com>wrote:
> << Plus there were BJ7s, not BN7 Mk1s. >>
> AND
> << ...57FAC when the actual car is Blue over White... >>
>
> Didn't Phil Coombs own it "over here", have restored in WI,
> then even compete with it a couple times, take it back to
> "Merry Ole" and sell for something like 1/4 mil ? ! ? ! ?
> He and another chap had 33 & 106 at Conclave '88, IIRC
> at same time !
>
> Even seems to me IRC a pic "over here" in late '80s of a pic
> in either Healey Marque or Healey Mag. of 56 & 57 together
> ???
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