[Healeys] Something we thankfully don't see every day

[Bob Spidell]

Wow. My family used to live near Tollhouse. We moved a couple years before that crash occurred. 

That was a scary road; basically switchbacks up a sheer mountain wall. Where the crash occurred was one of the more subdued parts, probably near the bottom of the grade. He wouldn't have survived--rollbar or not--if he'd gone off the side. 

Bob 


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Bob Spidell - San Jose, CA 

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The crossed flags looks like an old Chevy insignia.. The oil sump doesn't 
look like a stock Healey pan either.. just a WAG it is a very early Nasty 
boy conversion..though the single down pipe makes that guess suspect.. 
dave 

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Yesterday I came across this set of photos I'd not seen before. 
They're from the Fresno Bee in August 1966 of a crashed BN2 on the 
Tollhouse Road, NE of Fresno. The licence plate appears to read NSO 
407. There is a small badge on the left of the grille. Looks like 
crossed flags. Do any listers recall this event, or the car? It's 
only the second Healey I've ever seen that's been in a bad crash. 
The car does not appear to be an M as there is no 'strap gap' in the 
bonnet louvres and the exhaust system is not stock. My guess is it 
had been tweaked for extra performance. Too much, I guess! 



Mark Donaldson 



Auckland 

NZ