The person who was providing the financial backing for the proposed Healey
museum at VIR also owned one of the three Rolls Healey 4000 cars with the
Rolls Royce Princess engines. He showed up in it with his little daughter
in the passenger seat at the Carolinas AHC fall mountain tour a few years
ago and drove it on the tour. An amazingly young fellow and very pleasant.
As it was told to me, the guy did go through a divorce and had to sell off
the 4000 and a Silverstone.
I intercepted several boxes of Healey Marque/Chatter and Austin-Healey
Magazine/Healey Highlights going back to 1970 that were going to the museum.
I was to use them for BJ8 registry purposes and then pass them on to Bill
Emerson, but the museum project fell through before I finished with them, so
I still have them.
Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC USA
-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at
autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Austin Healey
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 6:56 PM
To: Editorgary at aol.com
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] erstwhile Healey Museum in Virginia
Sad story.
2011/8/14 <Editorgary at aol.com>
> In a message dated 8/14/11 11:05:49 AM, healeys-request at autox.team.net
> writes:
>
>
> > At the end there is some description of the fundation. The objective
> > being:
> > "To historically preserve the cars and memories of Donald M. Healey and
> > his
> > family, and all thoose who helped design,develop, produce, amrket and
> race
> > the cars that bear the Healey name."
> > "In addition to specific milestone cars, the Bill Wood Collection of
> > Healey
> > production documentation, obtained from Geoff Healey, will be a major
> part
> > of the museum's Resource Center."
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