[Healeys] Wacky Arnolt

[Roy Bowman]

Jack described the Bertone bodied Arnolt-MG.  Arnolt made a 
considerable
fortune during WWII from his contracts supplying 
the Navy with Sea-Mite
engines and other war-related materiale.
He had set up his headquarters in
Warsaw, IN while maintaining his
automotive import and sales operations in
Chicago.  He helped
re-capitalize a near bankrupt Bertone in the early 50's
and also 
developed the beautiful Arnolt-Bristol sports roadster, also Bertone
bodied.  Check it out here:
 
http://www.fantasyjunction.com/cars/672-Arnolt-Bristol-Competition%20Roadster
-Inline%206%20Cyl. 
 
Note the picture at this site of famed French racing
hero and, later, 
New York City restaurateur Rene Dreyfuss, who came out of
retirement 
to drive for Wacky at Sebring.  
 
Interested in other types of
horsepower, he was also the President of the
Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders
Assn. 
 
Roy Bowman
BJ8 28985
Indianapolis, IN
 
 
From: "healeyguy at aol.com"
<healeyguy at aol.com>
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011
5:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Wacky Arnolt

Quick look on the internet found:
Arnolt Corporation was founded in 1932 by Stanley H. Arnolt II (1907-1963) in
Chicago with  three employees, manufacturing automobile lubricating devices.
During that time Arnolt developed an inboard marine engine called the
Sea-Mite, which was one-third lighter than other engines of equal horsepower.
On the thick foggy morning of September 26, 1938, with one of his engines
affixed to a 13-foot boat, Arnolt left St. Joseph, Michigan and headed for
Chicago.


Fighting waves and fog, he made the trip in four hours. Boatmen
along Navy
Pier shook their heads in disbelief, stating that he had more nerve
than they
did. He was greeted through the still thick morning fog with, "Hallo
there,
Wacky!". The headline of an article that day in The Chicago Daily News
read,
"Wacky Comes Through in Fog; Crosses Lake in 13-Foot Boat"b&and the
nickname
stuck. Thereafter, he was known as "Wacky" Arnolt.
Aloha
Perry
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Feldman <qualitas.jack at gmail.com>
To:
healeys at autox.team.net
Sent: Sun, Jul 31, 2011 4:43 pm
Subject: [Healeys]
Wacky Arnolt


Since there is so much talk about distributors, I remembered
and unanswered
uestion about S. H. Arnolt, the Midwest distributor. He is
known for
ending MG chassis to Italy to have them special bodied to sell here
in the
tates. He is usually referred to as Wacky. I even have a picture of him
in
overalls with the name Wacky above the pocket.
Anyone know why?
Jack
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