[Healeys] Driving Healeys in winter!

[Norman Nock]

Rich C ... The winter in Toronto was a big surprise coming from England , it's cold ... 1st January 1956 we watched the Pasadena Rose Bowl Parade , three months later we where on our way to California , crossing the Bay bridge into San Francisco , blue sky , sale boats out on the bay , this is Healey country .
 We stopped in San Francisco , I got a mechanics job at the British car dealer , we lived in Marin county and I crossed the Golden Gate bridge every day to work in my BN4 ,with the  top down .. 
 We never got to Pasadena ... Norman Nock
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--- On Thu, 1/15/09, Rich C <richchrysler at quickclic.net> wrote:

> From: Rich C <richchrysler at quickclic.net>
> Subject: [Healeys] Driving Healeys in winter!
> To: ahy3000 at comcast.net, "R. Price Lindsay" <price at advocateadvisors.com>, "Quinn, Patrick" <Patrick.Quinn at det.nsw.edu.au>, "healeys" <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 6:53 AM
> Many years ago out of necessity (my only wheels) I drove a
> '67 BJ8 through 
> the winter of '74/'75. I'm talking a Southern
> Ontario winter, with lots of 
> snow, salt, dampness and cold. Even though the car had been
> "Ziebarted" 
> (remember them? they were a chain of stores who specialized
> in thorough rust 
> proofing) I shudder to think of what the salt did to the
> car. That is the 
> only part I truly regret.
> Anyway the top and seals fit reasonably well and with a 190
> degree 
> thermostat, the heater was pretty good. The tires were a
> set of the Goodyear 
> G800 redwalls (remember them? They were fitted to a lot of
> TR6's at the 
> time) About the only thing that was not up to the job for
> winter driving 
> were the "demister" vents. Just like the old
> Volkswagen beetles, you carried 
> a hand scraper for scraping the inside as well as the
> outside of the glass.
> Traction and handling in slippery conditions was fantastic
> unless the snow 
> was so deep you were plowing. I recall that at highway
> speeds in sub feezing 
> temperatures, the heat inside gradually dissipated, but in
> town, things were 
> very comfortable.
> It always took lots of choke to start from stone cold, but
> she always 
> started. The choke remained on in varying amounts until the
> engine was fully 
> heat saturated.
> Ah, the memories!
> I'm happy to say, the car was completely restored by a
> subsequent owner, and 
> is still alive and well today.
> 
> Rich Chrysler
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