[Healeys] BN2 Door Quirk

[Chris Dimmock]

Reminds me of a mate of mine, Col Dodds, who took his beautiful Mercedes 190 SL convertible and ran it at a Historic Race meeting at Amaroo Park many years ago. 
Even when he backed off the accelerator, the car kept accelerating through corners....
Turns out the throttle linkage ran just under the floor, where Colin was bracing himself with his left foot...
;-) 


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> On 30 Dec 2014, at 8:31 am, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Have the upholstery for our BN2 largely done so I slapped the driver's seat in and took her for a ride.  Car has a 'feature' I hadn't anticipated: When driving the 100 the driver's door kept popping open (embarrassing if not flat dangerous).  When driving my BJ8 I often rest/brace my left knee against the door panel.  Finally figured out that when I moved my knee to its usual 'left brace' position--the 100 has an opening in the door panel instead of a solid panel like the BJ8--my knee would hit the door opening cable and, well, the cable did what it was supposed to do!
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