[Healeys] Kathy Wissig's AH 100

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To add to the discussion, I have body #598 and the center of my car is all  
aluminum and the wings and doors are steel. My bonnet doesn't even have any 
 cross bracing under the hood and I've only seen a couple of others like 
it. My  chassis number is 146497, engine number 1B139622 and there's a metal 
plate fixed  to my firewall with the numbers 4407-598 stamped on it. 
    On the inside of the car, in the drivers foot well,  the plastic plate 
in there has the same engine number and chassis number. 
    So my car body is about half aluminum, half steel  and I would assume 
Kathy Wissig's is the same.
Steven Kingsbury

BN1 #598
 
 
In a message dated 7/15/2011 8:37:18 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
cnaarndt at gmail.com writes:

Gene,

Thanks.  Your car was the first one I thought of  when I posted my
statements.  I know of several more cars from yours  to body no. 62 and they
all have steel wings, which is after all what we  are referring to when we
talk about all aluminum bodies.

FYI, the  aluminum bonnet changed to steel at body no. *3397* (156120) and
the boot  at *4129* (158100)  This is from the Clausager book, which is  not
always totally accurate but, in this case I believe it is.  For  example,
Clausager states that the *"Austin of England" *badge was  changed
to*"Austin Healey"
* some time in Aug. of '54 when the rear  reflectors were added.  In fact my
car built in Jan. '55 had the rear  reflectors (with brass versus aluminum
plinth bodies and orange reflectors)  *and* the *"Austin of England" *badge.
This is also confirmed with many  other original cars from around my
batch/body and chassis number (5179/7200  and 222660.)

Cheers,

Curt :{)

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at  7:57 AM, Gene <genski434 at comcast.net> wrote:

> My Bn1 is the  27th in production  (body 51) and comes with the aluminum
>
>  shrouds, steel doors and fenders  and the blue engine color.   :))
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From:  "Curt/Nancy Arndt" 
<cnaarndt at gmail.com>
> To: "Chris Dimmock"  <austin.healey at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Jim Cox"  <Tappiokie at gmail.com>; "healey list"  
<healeys at autox.team.net>;
> "Mr.Finespanner"  <mrfinespanner at earthlink.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 10:27  AM
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Kathy Wissig's AH  100
>
>
>  Listers,
>>
>> It was more  than the first 20 cars that were all aluminum (Birmabright 
to
>>  be
>> exact) but not much more.  Blair Harbor's car, the first  production AH
>> with
>> body no. 24, was all aluminum and  the rumor was that the first 50 were
>> too,
>> but this has  yet to be confirmed.  We have confirmed that from body 
number
>>  50 on they were steel bodies with the aluminum boot and bonnet, but  
there
>> just doesn't see m to be a lot of production cars surviving  prior to no.
>> 50.
>>
>> What we do believe is  that most of the first 300 cars or so were painted
>> Healey Blue or  Grey.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Curt  :{)
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Chris Dimmock  
<austin.healey at gmail.com>*
>>  *wrote:
>>
>>  I'm pretty sure that was only the first  20 DHMCo cars that were all
>>> aluminium, but I'm going from  memory.
>>> Most "early" cars had aluminium bootlids - my old BN1  152199 (Spruce
>>> Green,
>>> and since superbly  restored by Keith, on this list) was about the 12th
>>>  BN1
>>> imported into Australia, and had the aluminium bootlid,  adjustable 
column
>>> and one piece dash.
>>> British  Heritage even put that on the certificate I got back when a
>>>  Anders did the certificates himself.
>>>  Which effectively  makes it a "later earlier car"
>>> ;-)
>>>  Chris
>>>
>>> Sent from my  iPhone
>>>
>>>
>>> On 15/07/2011, at 5:45  PM, Derek Job <derek.c.job at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>  Weren't the first few hundred  100s still aluminium?
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Derek
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