[Healeys] Grill surrond question

[Bill]

I'll jump back in here for a little bit.  I'm the 2nd owner of BN1 #663 
born 5 Nov. '53 and I know the curved front has not been changed.

However, Jim, weren't the first hundred or so cars all alloy?  Is 
yours?  It was my understanding these were pretty much prototypes and 
could differ from one to another.  Correct?  Rich?

Who really knows?  My car has a black under bonnet on a Carmine Red 
car.  I can't prove it other than having the, now deceased, original 
owner telling me that's the way he got it.  Many years ago, an 
apparently much more congenial Geoff told me he seemed to remember a few 
like that but didn't know why.  Eric Grunden of Absolutely British 
worked on an OEW 100 that also had the black.

But who cares?  I have a very fast M-kit driver with Dayton 72's and a 
3.54 but, what the hey, my grill is original satin!  LOL

Bill Barnett
Santa Ana, CA



Rich C wrote:
> Meanwhile both the preproduction AHX-14 and the first production car 
> BN1L138031 that I helped the present owner restore completely have the 
> curved top grilles. We were very careful to prove out and maintain these 
> details.
> You can see many pictures of them on Larry Varley's Restoration site.
>
> http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/24-7.html
>
> http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/AHXREST.html
>
> Rich Chrysler
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <magmay at peoplepc.com>
> To: "all" <Healeys at Autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 3:02 PM
> Subject: [Healeys] Grill surrond question
>
>
>   
>> Well for what it's worth, and to muddy the waters a bit, my car is #93 , 
>> Aug
>> 1, 1953 build date and it has the flat top surround. No I can not say with
>> certainty it is the original piece, but the shroud is. So either the 
>> grills
>> are interchangable as far as the shroud opening goes, which could well be 
>> the
>> case, or sometime early on the grills were modified to the curve and some
>> early cars had them installed. If they were around and unused I wouldn't 
>> rule
>> them being sold off as replacements either. We know the design was changed
>> from the prototype but do we know there was no interim step in the design?
>> Jim
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