[Healeys] 3000 MK2 Demonstration car Blue Don

[gary brierton]

One final note...
On the AHCA web site we have archived a bunch of information (and speculation)
on the 4-eyed Healey http://www.healeyclub.org/healey-marque-four-light.aspx
I have a folder full of correspondence with David Matthews and others who
generally conclude that the present 4-eyed is a cobbled up machine, with bits
and pieces of dubious Healey linage.
By the way, one of the RR AH cars spent some time in Allen Hendrix's shop here
in Greensboro, NC.
I have enjoyed corresponding with you on this interesting bit of history
GaryB
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From: "Oudesluys" <coudesluijs at chello.nl>
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 6:32 AM
To: "gary brierton" <gbrierton at hotmail.com>; "Healey List Emails"
<healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] 3000 MK2 Demonstration car Blue Don

> 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