[Healeys] 3000 MK2 Demonstration car Blue Don

Oudesluys coudesluijs at chello.nl
Fri Jan 29 04:32:03 MST 2010


Hello Garry,
You are right, I just found the article in Classic & Sports Car, July 
2007 (not as recent as I thought) on a metallic blue twin headlight car. 
It claims that it is a 1960 Factory Competition Prototype with a De Dion 
rear axle, telescopic shock absorbers, rack and pinion steering (any 
idea what they used for this?). Chassis nr.: 012X300 and prototype 
engine nr.: 1C.H.43761. The track was widened  4", with rather crudely 
flared arches, not the body. This got me on the wrong track as I thought 
it was one of the RR Healeys.
The RR Healey were indeed very nice looking cars with sumpsous 
interiours. I only saw pictures of one, never seen one in the flesh. The 
extra width suited them very well.
Kees Oudesluijs
NL

gary brierton schreef:
> I think you are mixing up two Healey events.  There were four RR 
> Healeys, widened and modified in several ways.  These were developed 
> on MkIII's. They were beautiful, although the one I saw was white, my 
> least favorite AH color.  The four eyed AH was tried many years 
> earlier, on a 100-6 and scrapped.  A cobbled together 4-eyed AH, not 
> the original has surfaced from time to time, but it is a complete, 
> latter day creation of various AH parts. Even it's chassis has been 
> questioned.
> GaryB


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