[Healeys] Healeys

[Keith Taylor]

THE LIST IS ALIVE AGAIN
When some wowser declared "FRIDAY FUNNIES" not Kosher a couple of years ago
the traffic dwindled
Why was one opinion so detrimental to the traffic volume If you think back
I am sure the number of posts slowly halved
I for one would log in just for the Funnies & get caught up in current
topics , Not wait until I had an assembly issue before
I logged on.

Keith Taylor
Umina Beach  OZ

BN1
BN2




On 7 July 2014 17:09, Derek Job <derek.c.job at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lots of revisionism and 20/20 hindsight going on here.
>
> I don't think people realise just how bad the British economy was after the
> war. Debt to GDP was far higher than it is even in today's indebted times.
> When the 100 rolled out there was still food rationing, and plenty of other
> things were rationed as well. The formation of BMC was a good idea, the
> formation of BL wasn't.
>
> The 2 plus 2 was actually a pretty clever marketing move, and it was aimed
> squarely at the US market. I believe there is still a German company called
> Porsche that makes a reasonably successful car with 2 very small seats in
> the back.
>
> The 4 cylinder engine was to be discontinued in the rationalisation of
> engines into the A, B & C classifications. The C series was already
> designed by Morris. There was no money available for a new engine to be
> developed for a relatively small production car like the Austin Healey.
>
> Derek
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > Haven't driven a BN1, and only put a few miles on our BN2/100M but can
> > tell it's more nimble than my BJ8.  However, I think the BJ8 is a better
> > touring car because, let's face it, we probably spend 80+% of the time on
> > freeways and straight-as-a-section-line highways, and the big 6 is sweet
> > music for the long, straight (boring) roads, and serviceable on the
> > twisties.  The 3.54 diff helps a lot, too.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 7/6/2014 12:57 AM, Larry Varley 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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