[Healeys] Fwd: Healeys

[Patrick & Caroline Quinn]

G'day

Actually the first "real" Healey was built in late 1945 while the last
"real" Healey was built in 1954. You blokes are referring to Austin-Healeys
not Healeys.

Hoo Roo

Patrick Quinn
Blue Mountains, Australia

-----Original Message-----
From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
HealeyRick
Sent: Sunday, 6 July 2014 10:47 PM
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] Fwd: Healeys

Larry,

You'd have to include the Frogeye Sprite as well.  Designed by Donald and
Gerry it was totally original.  And Donald often said it was his favorite
Healey.  Unless you don't consider the Sprite a "real" Healey.  In that
case, we can have a whole other debate,

Cheers,
Rick


On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Larry Varley <varley at cosmos.net.au> wrote:

> I think it's time that the list had a healthy debate, and some fun. I 
> would propose that the only real Austin Healey was the BN1, designed 
> by Donald Healey and Gerry Coker. Everything after that was BMC, who 
> never made a decent car after the 50's, just using what they had to 
> keep producing the cars, that were for some part good ideas, but bad 
> design. The mini was a great idea, but mix the gearbox oil with the
engine? Oh dear.
> The BN2 with a extra gear in a much heavier gearbox that really added 
> no extra performance, then the 100-6 with that horribly heavy engine 
> and no more grunt. Why would anyone do that, and just ruin the balance of
the car?
> Ok after that they added the 12 port head to it, but the sixes at 
> their best are really ponderous in the steering department relative to 
> the BN1, which is a nibble well balance car. I'm going so far as to 
> use an alloy block in my BT7 to turn it back into a descend handling 
> car and restore the weight balance. BMC basically self destructed, 
> while the rest of the world moved forward, what a shame.
> Cheers
> Larry Varley
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