All I know is what Blair told me about his car. It was body number 24
and car number 1, and the discription of the reverse order was from
him. Which makes sense if body #1 came out of Jensen and was loaded
on a transport then it would be the last one unloaded. And if they
were shipped in batches of 24 bodies then #24 would be the first
unloaded thus being the first production car.
David Nock
British Car Specialists
Stockton Ca 95205
209-948-8767
www.britishcarspecialists.com
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On Jul 15, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Curt/Nancy Arndt wrote:
> David,
>
> Now that I think about this further, consider this, the batch and
> body number tags were attached at Jensen and then the cars were
> painted along with the tags, so it doesn't matter how the cars were
> loaded or off loaded at Longbridge, the numbers are what they are.
> If I take your statement as truth, then there are production car
> numbers from 1 through 23 and I don't believe that to be the case.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Curt
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Curt/Nancy Arndt
> <cnaarndt at gmail.com> wrote:
> David,
>
> I believe that's what I said...
>
> "Blair Harbor's car, the first production AH with body no. 24..."
>
> However I never heard about the switching at the loading and
> unloading. I assumed that Jensen would not discard the first 19 or
> 20 pre production car numbers and restart numbering with the
> production cars. Anyone else out there know about this, or have an
> opinion?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Curt
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:11 AM, David Nock
> <healeydoc at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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 Jensens 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
> .
> .
>
> 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 at 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Weren't the first few hundred 100s still aluminium?
>>>>
>>>> Derek
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