[Healeys] nasty boy trivia

[HealeyRick]

Very interesting.  Thanks for the link.  A couple of months ago I read a
comment on Bring a Trailer about a Shelby modified Healey (the commenter
described it as a 100-6).  I had read the stories of Carroll Shelby
approaching DMH to put a Chevy motor into the Healey, but the idea was
nixed by BMC and Chevrolet after which Shelby went to Ford and AC.  I
thought the BaT commenter might have confused this story with the Ford in a
Healey story and asked on the Modified Healey list if anyone had heard of a
Shelby-Healey, which no one had.  Anyway, this confirms the Shelby-Healey
story.  I see the link was from 2011 with a promise to write the full story
of the car, which I'd love to see, but assume it wasn't written.  The small
block Ford installation in a Healey looks very natural and doesn't require
a lot of cutting (just some narrowing of the footboxes)  I'm off to spread
this to the Nasty Boy guys.


Rick

"Madman in a death machine"
Follow My Nasty Boy Build:  http://tinyurl.com/yj52fwo


On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Bob Haskell <rchaskell at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> How about this?
>
> http://www.carnut.ca/images/carinfo/Carinfo_blank.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bob Haskell
> AHCA 3000 Mk I registrar
> http://www.ciahc.org/registry_3000mk1.php
>
> On 07/27/2014 04:27 PM, goldengt at cal.net wrote:
>
>> I am reading John Morton's book on recollections of the Shelby shop in
>> the early days. Mechanic Ted Sutton was given the task of putting the first
>> 427 into a 289 Cobra because Ted had put a Ford 289 into a Healey and
>> impressed Phil Remington with the neat job. The book doesn't say if Ted had
>> a 100 or 3000. If someone can trace their nasty boy back to Ted Sutton,
>> that would be neat.
>> Ken Freese
>> 65 BJ8