[Healeys] front wing cut-out

[Alan Seigrist]

Curt / Eric -

aha, ok.  Well my BN1 is #793 so you can see the ultra low cutout here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/Healey.Nut/HealeyNutSCarStuff/photo#5108199445914221410

you can tell it's very low because the top of the cutout is below the swage
line if it were to continue past the fender spear.  On my BJ8 the cutout is
clearly above the swage line's path.

Cheers,

Alan

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Curt/Nancy Arndt <cnaarndt at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Eric & Alan,
>
> There were actually 3 different front wheel opening sizes on the 100s.
> The size of the opening is best measured by the distance from the top of the
> wing above the highest point of the wheel opening straight down to that
> opening..
>
> On the earliest 100s, from before body number 900 (body # 883 documented),
> this distance measures anywhere from 9 3/8 to 9 1/2 inches.  These early '53
> BN1's have the smallest front wheel openings as Bill Barnett (#663) and
> Roland Wilhelmy (#724) can attest.  BTW, this comes from personal
> observation on almost a dozen original cars.
>
> On the later BN1's and *around the first 600 BN2's* this distance is a
> consistent 9 inches *+*.
>
> On the remaining BN2's the wheel opening was increased substantially and
> this distance now measures 7 1/2 to 7 3/4 *+* inches.  There are even some
> reports of early BN2's with one small opening wing on one side and a large
> opening wing on the other, but these are not well documented.
>
> This is all well documented in the Concours Guidelines.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Curt Arndt - AH Concours Committee
> Carlsbad, CA
> '55 BN1, '60 AN5 :{) '72 RWA Midget, '06 Cooper S