[Healeys] Healey Jamacain Trivia

Jackson Krall jackson_krall at yahoo.com
Sun May 10 21:45:30 MDT 2009


Back in the day I thought, from the magazine ads, that the Jamaican was the best looking body conversion around when, son of a gun if the guy who designed it didn't move to town. Chris Beebe came to Madison WI about 1970 and took over an ongoing business called Sports Car Specialists on Regent St. Chris ran a top notch operation that was a huge improvement over the previous propriators whose shoddy work inspired me to start doing my own repairs on my BJ8. Chris wore a white lab coat and never got dirty as all the work was being done by his staff of mechanics working under his guidance and direction. It was his brother who repaired my shock mount after it let go and put me into a snowbank. When I left for the east coast at the end of 1971 I gave them a 100 cylinder head... wish I had it now. I understand he closed the shop and got a govt contract to build electric cars.
Best
JK 

--- On Sun, 5/10/09, WILLIAM B LAWRENCE <ynotink at msn.com> wrote:

> From: WILLIAM B LAWRENCE <ynotink at msn.com>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Healey Jamacain
> To: "Len and/or Marge" <thehartnetts at earthlink.net>, healeys at autox.team.net
> Date: Sunday, May 10, 2009, 8:53 PM
> I don't have much use for kit cars, but this one seems
> extremely well done.
> Bill Lawrence

> http://www.specialtysales.com/1959-austin-healey-100-6-jamaican-c-1999.htm
> >
> > (The Other) Len
> > Vacaville, CA, USA
> > 1967 AH 3000 MkIII, HBJ8L39031


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