[Healeys] Healey 100 at Montlhéry

[Peter & Veronica]

Thanks for that Peter - by coincidence I've just finished reading Bill 
Boddy's history of Montlhery which describes this event - for the record, 
the 1 hour distances (miles) were:

Healey 100 (Ron Flockhart driving)    104.32
Riley Pathfinder R C Porter                108.03
MGA (stage II tune) John Gott           112.36
MGA (std tune?) Ken Wharton          102.54
Austin A90 Westminster John Gott   101.99
Wolseley 6/90 John Gott                   101.20

The Healey's run was in a gale with pouring rain. The Riley ran with the 
driver's wife and another couple on board, not a crash helmet or seat belt 
in sight.

The book is a good read despite many typos the result (say publishers 
Veloce) of an early attempt at OCR (the book is a reprint) The photo of a 
six cylinder Healey as the one involved in this event is not down to a typo 
though! I was taken by this bit too:

b
An interesting 1951 run was undertaken by H S F Hay, who, having taken part 
in the Le Mans twenty-four hour race in his Bentley Continental b
Cornicheb
 
saloon as part of a European holiday with his family, drove to the track 
(Montlhery) and put in an hour at cruising rpm. He covered 106.84 miles. The 
Bentley had not been touched after the Le Mans race and was carrying fifty 
gallons of fuel, five gallons of oil and a complete set of tools and 
equipment. Not even the tyres had been changedb


Way to go!

Cheers

Peter



-----Original Message----- 
From: Peter Svilans
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 7:28 PM
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] Healey 100 at MontlhC)ry

Here's a ten minute film of five BMC cars being taken for a run at the 
French
track.  Austin-Healey 100, MGA, Pathfinder, Westminster, Wolseley 6/90. And 
a
cup of tea at the end, of course.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=81585

Peter