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[Healeys] Another BN1 Returns to Life

Subject: [Healeys] Another BN1 Returns to Life
From: bspidell at comcast.net (Bob Spidell)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:42:04 +0000 (UTC)
I thought I felt a positive disturbance in The Force this morning. 

Bob 

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Bob Spidell - San Jose, CA 



Hello all, 



Today at just after noon EDT, BN1L 158893 burst into life again after being 
silent since 1965. This car broke a gear back in '65 which actually probably 
saved the car. It was removed from the road at that time, seems to have been 
completely stripped down to almost every last nut and bolt during the 
1970's, but everything was carefully catalogued and stored. I first saw the 
car in 1988 when a close friend and I went to see a "BN1 Project for Sale". 
My friend bought it, moved 3 times, got married had a family, and approached 
me in 2000 asking if I could help him sell it as he'd never get around to 
doing the car. I bought it myself, and moved it all again. In 2006 a new 
club member had been looking for a Healey and wasn't having much luck with 
all the overpriced junk out there so I sold it to him as a project on the 
condition that we would build for him. 

The car is finally about finished except for the many bugs and trouble 
shooting that inevitably comes with the territory. She's all black with 
almost all of her original persimmon orange and red interior, red top, etc. 
She's a stunning piece of Healey. 



Rich 
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