[Healeys] Did you know? (shrouds)

[Alan Seigrist]

Jim -

Your pictures are great, thanks for sharing them....

There's a ton of interesting history on Larry Varley's site, and there
is actually an article chronicling how Jensen made the shrouds (with
pics!):

http://www.users.bigpond.com/acmefluid/jensenweld.html

Also, did you know that Mk II and Mk III shrouds are different than
Mki/100-6 shrouds?  The grille opening is slightly different and the
curvature of the bit above the grill is rounder on the MkII/MKIIIs,
alot of people don't know that.

Best,

Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'64 BJ8


On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Jim Culp <jculphealey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> As work continues on my chassis, I found out an interesting tidbit about my
> car.  The front shroud on our cars (at least on 3000's, but I believe on all
> big Healeys) was originally 7 pieces of aluminum that were welded together to
> form the shroud.
>
> This may not be news to many of you here, but I did not know this.
>
> If anyone has interesting facts about our great cars that may not be widely
> known, please share them with us.
>
> Here is a link to a photo showing my shroud.  Two of the cut lines are shown
> in the photo- one between the two hands shown, and another between the two red
> arrows.  The drilled holes that you see were put there by one of the previous
> two owners of my car so that the half inch of filler he slapped on would have
> something to hold on to.
>
> http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d106/jculpjr/Healey%20chassis/holeswithmark
> s.jpg