[Healeys] Nissan powered 3000 - BAT

[Derek Job]

Great news

Someone got a very good deal.

Derek

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:13 PM, HealeyRick <healeyrick at yahoo.com> wrote:

> A happy ending.  This from Ken, the seller: "  I received a dozen calls or
> emails of what I would consider serious
> inquiries.  I received a PayPal
> deposit by noon of the day it appeared
> and it left to its new owner this
> morning, just two days later.  I had a
>  back up buyer if this one fell
> through."
>
> Rick
>
>
> --- On Fri, 7/13/12, HealeyRick <healeyrick at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I forwarded the listing to BaT and was glad to see they featured it.  I
> got to
> know Ken, the owner, from the Factory Five forum which is one of my
> internet
> hangouts.  Ken has owned a Factory Five roadster as well as a Shelby GT350
> clone.  We started talking online when he posted up his new purchase, the
> Healey Z.  The swap was done about 25 yrs ago and Ken got a deal on it.  He
> put some sweat equity into it, including that incredibly deep BRG paint.
>  The
> car immediately reminded me of the swap that Mark Lambert did that was
> featured in Chatter a number of years ago.  If it were possible to come to
> blows in print, I think Mark and Roger Moment were close. It was funny to
> see
> the BaT comments as they mirrored those old Chatter letters to the editor
> (how
> did we ever communicate without the internet?)
>
> Rick
>
>
> Follow My Nasty Boy Build:  http://tinyurl.com/yj52fwo
>
> --- On Fri, 7/13/12, Jonas Payne <JPayne at ThorCon.net> wrote:
> I looked at this yesterday, and thought the concept was pretty cool in that
> it
> maintained a straight 6 with "imitation" SU's.
>
> Neat idea, just a bit blasphemous.
>
> That said, If I was going to go through the trouble of a swap and the
> blasphemy, a Small Block Ford V8.   If the straight 6 thing was a big
> deal, a
> BMW 3L would be the way to go.
>
>
>
> Jonas Payne
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