[Healeys] Fw: BN1 changes

[Peter Linn]

Resent - original too long!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Linn" <greylinn at ozemail.com.au>
To: "Rich C" <richchrysler at quickclic.net>; <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] BN1 changes


> Many thanks to all of you who replied. It seems the simple answer is, 
> there's nothing definite abou the various change dates!
>
> Rick and Roger - the batch no. is 5090, the body no. 6290. The car has an 
> after market ignition switch of the type you turn the key to start, so I 
> can't give you that number. The car was originally Healey blue (now blue 
> and white) with blue interior. As I recall, the piping was the same colour 
> as the trim, but I don't think it's original.
>
> Patrick - I passed on the info about previous owner John Veale to Darryll 
> Searle the current owner. He tells me that the original owner (as shown on 
> the Heritage certificate) was J (Jeffrey?) Penfold Hyland of Penfold 
> wines, who presumably ordered it direct from the factory. In another case 
> of "6 degrees of separation", the brother of another Queensland AHOC 
> member once owned a DB2 Aston, also owned by Penfold Hyland and apparently 
> ordered at the same time!
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter Linn
> Brisbane Oz
>
> PS This is the first "standard" Healey of any type I've driven. It has a 
> BN1 box with the A90 first gear unblocked, and it seems to me that all the 
> stories of this being unuseable are a Furphy (urban legend). I found it 
> perfectly useable and I'm now more determined to do the same to the Ward 
> Special (3.54 diff) to save its clutch!