[Healeys] Wow, I didn't think this happened anymore!

e-wilkins at cox.net e-wilkins at cox.net
Fri Oct 14 11:47:58 MDT 2011


Was making a "joke", knowing that you have that car. Was just looking at it the other day in "The Healey Book" 

Wilko
BN6

---- Patrick and Caroline Quinn <p_cquinn at tpg.com.au> wrote: 
> G'day Eric
> 
> I just ran down to the garage and the only four-seater BN3 is still there.
> However it did spend some time in a junkyard during the late 1950s and
> perhaps Paul B. slipped through a time portal.
> 
> Hoo Roo
> 
> Patrick Quinn
> Sydney, Australia
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Eric (Rick) Wilkins
> Sent: Friday, 14 October 2011 12:09 PM
> To: Paul Barnes
> Cc: <Healeys at autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Wow, I didn't think this happened anymore!
> 
> 4 seats, drum brakes = bn4
> 
> Or BN3!
> 
> Sent from my iPhone, so autocorrects may have inserted some odd words.
> 
> On Oct 12, 2011, at 10:49 PM, "Paul Barnes" <fiat500f at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> > Today, while climbing through a OLD junkyard, I found a Austin Healey!  I
> > don't know if it was a 100-6 or a 3000 as quite a bit of it was gone, but
> I
> > can say that it definitely was not a 100-4, a BJ8, and it was a four
> seater.
> > It has four wheel drum brakes and wire wheels.   It must have been there a
> > long time.  The front shroud is gone, as are the engine and gearbox.  The
> rear
> > shroud is there as are the rear fenders, rear axle and diff., front
> > suspension, some interior bits.  ID plates are gone.  It was just so
> > unexpected to see a Healey in a junkyard these days!  Well, a big Healey I
> > mean.  There are like 6-7 Bugeyes in the same yard.
> >
> > - Paul B.


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