[Healeys] Healey Jamacain Trivia

[Healey Bruce]

And who worked for Chris?  None other than Peter Egan before his writing 
career.

Bruce Steele
1960 BN7
Brea, CA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jackson Krall" <jackson_krall at yahoo.com>
To: <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Healey Jamacain Trivia


> 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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