[Healeys] Fw: BN1 changes

[WILLIAM B LAWRENCE]

Agreed, the "granny" gear is a lot more useful with the 3.54:1 gears. I
sometimes use it for starting on a hill. Maybe for parades...?
Bill Lawrence

> From: greylinn at ozemail.com.au
> To: healeys at autox.team.net
> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:17:33 +1000
> Subject: [Healeys] Fw:  BN1 changes
>
> 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!
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