Curt, even though Blair's car is Body number 24 it wasnt the 24th car
built his car is actually the 1st production car. They were loaded at
Jenses from 1-24 and unloaded 24-1 so body 24 is car 1 and body 1 is
car 24.
David Nock
British Car Specialists
Stockton Ca 95205
209-948-8767
www.britishcarspecialists.com
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On Jul 15, 2011, at 7:27 AM, Curt/Nancy Arndt wrote:
> Listers,
>
> It was more than the first 20 cars that were all aluminum
> (Birmabright to be
> exact) but not much more. Blair Harbor's car, the first production
> AH with
> body no. 24, was all aluminum and the rumor was that the first 50
> were too,
> but this has yet to be confirmed. We have confirmed that from body
> number
> 50 on they were steel bodies with the aluminum boot and bonnet, but
> there
> just doesn't see m to be a lot of production cars surviving prior
> to no. 50.
>
> What we do believe is that most of the first 300 cars or so were
> painted
> Healey Blue or Grey.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Curt :;{)
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Chris Dimmock
> <austin.healey@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty sure that was only the first 20 DHMCo cars that were all
>> aluminium, but I'm going from memory.
>> Most "early" cars had aluminium bootlids - my old BN1 152199
>> (Spruce Green,
>> and since superbly restored by Keith, on this list) was about the
>> 12th BN1
>> imported into Australia, and had the aluminium bootlid, adjustable
>> column
>> and one piece dash.
>> British Heritage even put that on the certificate I got back when a
>> Anders did the certificates himself.
>> Which effectively makes it a "later earlier car"
>> ;-)
>> Chris
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
>> On 15/07/2011, at 5:45 PM, Derek Job <derek.c.job@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Weren't the first few hundred 100s still aluminium?
>>>
>>> Derek
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Mr. Finespanner <
>>> mrfinespanner@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> According to the numbers this was the 120th Healey 100 built.
>>>> Doug Reid, 18G Motorworks
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