[Healeys] Fwd: Healeys

[Larry Varley]

Lol, happy to include the sprite, great looking car, boring after the 
bugeye, but who would design that stupid little hose that goes from the 
head to the block and is near impossible to change without taking the 
head off! And how long does it take to work out that putting a ball race 
on each end of the gearbox cluster will mean you can rebuild it without 
replacing the gear!
P.S. I know we all love them because they look and sound wonderful, but 
they did bring themselves undone.
Cheers
Larry

On 6/07/2014 10:46 PM, HealeyRick wrote:
> 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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