[Healeys] Vintage Restorations on Long Island?
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Wed Jan 7 12:23:44 MST 2015
Is there any possibility that John Hodgman used that name for his shop? He certainly was doing excellent restorations on Long Island in the 1980s, so he might know who was using the name, if he wasn't.
G.
Gary Anderson
Registrar, Austin-Healey Concours Registry
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2. Stolen 100 (Tadeusz Malkiewicz)
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4. Re: You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch (Graeme Molony)
5. Re: You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch (Patrick & Caroline Quinn)
6. BN7 for sale (David Porter)
7. ducting (=?utf-8?Q?healeymanjim?=)
8. Re: ducting (Oudesluys)
9. ducting (J Armour)
10. Vintage Restorations, Long Island (Randy Hicks)
11. Re: ducting (Oudesluys)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 19:13:42 +0000
From: Jean Caron <vintage_roadster_restoration at hotmail.com>
To: AustinHealey List <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Fw: AH Club USA calendar screw up
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David, that could very well be the reason but I also think that since more and
more members are retired or about to, the days of the week then become
meaningless so the AHCA sought to support these members this year. LOL
Jean
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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 10:13:43 -0800
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Fw: AH Club USA calendar screw up
Lucas Calendars
AHCA we don?t know what day of the week it is
AHCUSA we skip a Saturday at the end of January
from Friday the 31st to Sunday the 1st
David
Nock
British Car
Specialists
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www.britishcarspecialists.com
From: Ed Orr
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 9:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [Healeys] Fw: AH Club USA calendar screw
up
Austin Healey Club of America Calendar arrived in Canada today , nice
Calendar but doesn?t show the days of the week , what happened ?
Ed Orr
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up
Replacement pages for calendar arrived in mail
today
Aloha
Perry
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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 20:40:51 +0100
From: "Tadeusz Malkiewicz" <Tadeusz.Malkiewicz at plusnet.pl>
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Subject: [Healeys] Stolen 100
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It's a very sellable car. The thieves just have to get past the European
Union border, travel in easterly direction and sell it in a country where
Mr. Putin rules ...
Tadek
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Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:47:48 -0500
From: Bob <robertlarson at att.net>
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:27:26 +1100
From: "Graeme Molony" <molony at dodo.com.au>
To: "Randy Hicks" <healey100m at me.com>, "HealeyRick"
<healeyrik at gmail.com>
Cc: Healey List <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
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Looks like a nice car. Pity it has been stolen I hope he gets it back
But good luck with the insurance claim if not
There is currently a very tidy looking red over black 1955 BN2 (originally left
hand drive) now right hand drive converted by
The Healey Factory ( so it should be fairly good ) to !00M specifications
available for sale here in Melbourne
for A$66,000.00 which equates to around US $52,800.00 on the current exchange
rate.
Any one want a bargain 100M.? My mate decided not to buy it as it was too nice
a car as he is looking for reasonably tidy car
to do up and sell on eventually but if the going price is now !00K GBP perhaps
he had better rethink
Cheers
Graeme M
From: Randy Hicks
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 11:13 AM
To: HealeyRick
Cc: Healey List
Subject: Re: [Healeys] You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
I have the car registered in The Austin Healey Club of America 100 Registry. It
is a BN1 with Le Mans conversion. Not sure when the conversion was done.
Last I saw the car listed was at Gullwing Motors (NY) in late 2011. It
apparently went to the UK after that.
Randy
Randy Hicks
AHCA 100 Registrar
ahca100registrar at gmail.com
www.austinhealey100m.com
On Jan 5, 2015, at 5:05 PM, HealeyRick <healeyrik at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi John,
There's more information on the car here: http://tinyurl.com/kskyb5h
According to the owner, the car was purchased by a U.S. soldier in Germany,
shipped to the U.S. in the 60s and went back to the UK in 2013.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:07 PM, John Harper <ah100register at gmail.com> wrote:
Dear All
Having made just a quick check I cannot find any car in our database with
that UK registration number.
I have to presume that this means that the owner had not registered his car
with the Austin-Healey Club UK. As you said with a chassis number it would help
us all to keep an eye out for the car.
I get the feeling that the registration (marque) number 856 YUK would not
have been issued when the car was young. It was issued in Wolverhampton but only
counties or metropolitan areas' who had used up all the prefix letters, would
have used the reverse system of numbers before letters. YUK is a long way from
the first used of say xxx AUK so I would venture to guess that this registration
was issued in the early the 1960s but before the extra suffix letter was added
in 1962.
This could mean that the car came back from outside the UK; but this sort of
speculation is of no help without a chassis number.
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:56:23 +1100
From: "Patrick & Caroline Quinn" <p_cquinn at tpg.com.au>
To: "'Graeme Molony'" <molony at dodo.com.au>
Cc: 'Healey List' <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
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G?day Graeme
That is really something that annoys me.
This car in Australia came up on eBay in January 2013 for $78,000. The
seller listed it as a 100M and if it was $78K it would have been cheap. I
wrote to the seller asking for certification that it was. Naturally I didn?t
receive any because it?s not a 100M. Yes it?s a BN2 that?s fitted with a few
Le Mans mods and by doing that he gained admission into the 100M ?Le Mans?
Registry. In his ad he also has not included any photos of the engine.
I should say that gaining entry to the Registry is relatively simple. Any
100 that?s fitted with 1 ? SUs and leather bonnet strap can gain entry and
it doesn?t matter if it was so fitted in 1955 or 2014.
The going price of a fair dinkum 100M is close to $200K and that car is not
in that league. Anyone who wishes to have a looksee can do so at:
http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/Austin-Healey-100-1956/SSE-AD-314
2699/?Cr=0
<http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/Austin-Healey-100-1956/SSE-AD-31
42699/?Cr=0&sdmvc=1> &sdmvc=1
Hoo Roo
Patrick Quinn
Blue Mountains, Australia
From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Graeme
Molony
Sent: Wednesday, 7 January 2015 11:27 AM
To: Randy Hicks; HealeyRick
Cc: Healey List
Subject: Re: [Healeys] You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
Looks like a nice car. Pity it has been stolen I hope he gets it back
But good luck with the insurance claim if not
There is currently a very tidy looking red over black 1955 BN2 (originally
left hand drive) now right hand drive converted by
The Healey Factory ( so it should be fairly good ) to !00M specifications
available for sale here in Melbourne
for A$66,000.00 which equates to around US $52,800.00 on the current
exchange rate.
Any one want a bargain 100M.? My mate decided not to buy it as it was too
nice a car as he is looking for reasonably tidy car
to do up and sell on eventually but if the going price is now !00K GBP
perhaps he had better rethink
Cheers
Graeme M
From: Randy Hicks <mailto:healey100m at me.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 11:13 AM
To: HealeyRick <mailto:healeyrik at gmail.com>
Cc: Healey List <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
I have the car registered in The Austin Healey Club of America 100 Registry.
It is a BN1 with Le Mans conversion. Not sure when the conversion was done.
Last I saw the car listed was at Gullwing Motors (NY) in late 2011. It
apparently went to the UK after that.
Randy
Randy Hicks
AHCA 100 Registrar
ahca100registrar at gmail.com
www.austinhealey100m.com
On Jan 5, 2015, at 5:05 PM, HealeyRick <healeyrik at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi John,
There's more information on the car here: http://tinyurl.com/kskyb5h
According to the owner, the car was purchased by a U.S. soldier in Germany,
shipped to the U.S. in the 60s and went back to the UK in 2013.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:07 PM, John Harper <ah100register at gmail.com> wrote:
Dear All
Having made just a quick check I cannot find any car in our database with
that UK registration number.
I have to presume that this means that the owner had not registered his car
with the Austin-Healey Club UK. As you said with a chassis number it would
help us all to keep an eye out for the car.
I get the feeling that the registration (marque) number 856 YUK would not
have been issued when the car was young. It was issued in Wolverhampton but
only counties or metropolitan areas' who had used up all the prefix letters,
would have used the reverse system of numbers before letters. YUK is a long
way from the first used of say xxx AUK so I would venture to guess that this
registration was issued in the early the 1960s but before the extra suffix
letter was added in 1962.
This could mean that the car came back from outside the UK; but this sort of
speculation is of no help without a chassis number.
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:17:51 -0700
From: David Porter <frogeye at porterscustom.com>
To: "healeys at autox.team.net" <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: [Healeys] BN7 for sale
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It's a new year and want to remind you all that there is still a very,
very nice Tricarb two seater for sale. The price is still 80.000 US
dollars.
Dave
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 19:19:24 -0800
From: "=?utf-8?Q?healeymanjim?=" <healeymanjim at hansencc.net>
To: healeys at autox.team.net <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: [Healeys] ducting
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I finally got around to putting the ducting in front of the radiator on the bj8
after 35 years or so. made no discernible difference in heat dissipation that I
could tell. I have a high efficiency radiator and a six blade fan so I do not
overheat but I thought the ducting would help keep the temp from increasing at
stop lights.
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 09:59:17 +0100
From: Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl>
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] ducting
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The ducting will mainly be of use during driving, not at stop and go
traffic. The only thing it may perhaps do is to keep the recirculation
of hot air more or less in check, but do not be to sure about that. The
only thing that will help is an electric fan very near or fixed to the
radiator.
Kees Oudesluijs
healeymanjim schreef op 7-1-2015 om 4:19:
> I finally got around to putting the ducting in front of the radiator on the
bj8 after 35 years or so. made no discernible difference in heat dissipation
that I could tell. I have a high efficiency radiator and a six blade fan so I
do not overheat but I thought the ducting would help keep the temp from
increasing at stop lights.
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 00:16:32 +1100
From: J Armour <sebring3000 at bigpond.com>
To: "healeys at autox.team.net" <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: [Healeys] ducting
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>Kees
>My understanding is that at speed a fan is not required.
>Geoff clearly states that it is the recirculation of hot air that has
>already passed through the radiator matrix that must be avoided
>especially
>at low speeds - thus the installation of close fitting sealing ducts.
>Fans fitted in front of a radiator that originally has not had suitable
>allowance for the area blocked by the fan and its supports will decrease
>the cooling surface area.
>It is always easier to such air into a low pressure area than to attempt
>to blow it through a matrix and into an area which if restricted by a
>closed engine bay close to the ground will be inefficient.
>
>Works cars were usually fitted with vents in the front fenders to reduce
>under hood air pressure allowing more air to pass freely through the
>radiator.
>
>Controlling engine temperature is all about heat transfer. First a clean
>inner surface of the head and block casting, maximum wetted surface area
>ie. No crud build up in the bottom of the water jackets ( note how far
>down that huge lump of cast iron that the water does not go so any
crud build up can leave the surface area exposed to water reduced.)
>
>Clean cores in the radiator and good condition inside of tubes for water
>flow and clean and maximum outer area exposed to the air flow to gain
>maximum heat transfer. Also the thermostat must be operating as designed.
A dirty surface of cast iron will reduce the efficient transfer of heat
into the water
>
>Addressing only one of these areas will not necessarily solve the
>problem.
>And as Geoff said a bigger radiator and fan may not be the best solution
>
>
>
>Joe
>
>On 7/01/15 7:59 PM, "Oudesluys" <coudesluijs at chello.nl> wrote:
>
>>The ducting will mainly be of use during driving, not at stop and go
>>traffic. The only thing it may perhaps do is to keep the recirculation
>>of hot air more or less in check, but do not be to sure about that. The
>>only thing that will help is an electric fan very near or fixed to the
>>radiator.
>>Kees Oudesluijs
>>
>>
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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 07:32:49 -0700
From: Randy Hicks <healey100m at me.com>
To: Healey List <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: [Healeys] Vintage Restorations, Long Island
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Does anyone have any knowledge of a Long Island, NY (Healey?) restoration shop,
operating in the 80?s - 90?s, known as Vintage Restorations?
TIA
Randy
Randy Hicks
www.austinhealey100m.com
'56 100 M White/Black
'56 100 M Florida Green/OEW
'62 BN7 MkII with factory hardtop (may be For Sale)
'65 BJ8
'53 MGTD
'77 450 SL
Healey100M at gmail.com
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Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 17:30:41 +0100
From: Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl>
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] ducting
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Joe,
You are quite right about the cooling at speed, you do not generally
need any fan in a car with a front mounted radiator. In fact an electric
fan could be restrictive when demanding high power at high speed, e.g.
when racing. However high power demand at low speed, e.g. in the
mountains, will demand extra ventilation i.e. electric cooling fan as
the standard fan is usually not sufficient.
I remember the days well, back in the fifties and sixties, when many
cars had to stop several times to cool down when crossing the St.
Gotthard or Grossglockner pass or one of the French Alpine passes. By
the way also caused by tourists travelling in to high a gear and low revs.
The problem lies in modern traffic where you may stop and go at less
than 5mph for more than an hour, certainly not uncommon on our roads in
the Netherlands. There is hardly a way to properly duct hot air away,
which means you would need a very close fitting electric fan as the ones
common on modern cars.
When applying ducting make sure that the ducting in front of the
radiator scoops up as much air as possible (air dam) and that there are
no air leaks that allow air past the radiator or allow hot air from the
engine compartment to flow back to the front of the radiator.
It goes without saying that all cooling and cooled surfaces should be
clean, so should be the coolant.
In all my cars I have had with a fixed fan on the water pump or crank
shaft ( Renault 4, Landrover SIII, Chevrolet Bel Air, Peugeot 404,
Jensen Healey etc.) from the early sixties onwards, I removed the fixed
fan altogether and replaced it with a thermostatically controlled
electric fan, mostly from the breakers yard, and replaced the thermostat
with a ca. 86?C item if needed, changed the coolant every two years and
never had a problem except once when a fuse of the electric fan blew.
To reduce air pressure in the engine compartment often a panel is
introduced from the bottom of the radiator shroud back to beyond the
front of the engine .
Kees Oudesluijs
J Armour schreef op 7-1-2015 om 14:16:
>
>> Kees
>> My understanding is that at speed a fan is not required.
>> Geoff clearly states that it is the recirculation of hot air that has
>> already passed through the radiator matrix that must be avoided
>> especially
>> at low speeds - thus the installation of close fitting sealing ducts.
>> Fans fitted in front of a radiator that originally has not had suitable
>> allowance for the area blocked by the fan and its supports will decrease
>> the cooling surface area.
>> It is always easier to such air into a low pressure area than to attempt
>> to blow it through a matrix and into an area which if restricted by a
>> closed engine bay close to the ground will be inefficient.
>>
>> Works cars were usually fitted with vents in the front fenders to reduce
>> under hood air pressure allowing more air to pass freely through the
>> radiator.
>>
>> Controlling engine temperature is all about heat transfer. First a clean
>> inner surface of the head and block casting, maximum wetted surface area
>> ie. No crud build up in the bottom of the water jackets ( note how far
>> down that huge lump of cast iron that the water does not go so any
> crud build up can leave the surface area exposed to water reduced.)
>> Clean cores in the radiator and good condition inside of tubes for water
>> flow and clean and maximum outer area exposed to the air flow to gain
>> maximum heat transfer. Also the thermostat must be operating as designed.
> A dirty surface of cast iron will reduce the efficient transfer of heat
> into the water
>> Addressing only one of these areas will not necessarily solve the
>> problem.
>> And as Geoff said a bigger radiator and fan may not be the best solution
>>
>>
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> On 7/01/15 7:59 PM, "Oudesluys" <coudesluijs at chello.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> The ducting will mainly be of use during driving, not at stop and go
>>> traffic. The only thing it may perhaps do is to keep the recirculation
>>> of hot air more or less in check, but do not be to sure about that. The
>>> only thing that will help is an electric fan very near or fixed to the
>>> radiator.
>>> Kees Oudesluijs
>>>
>>>
>
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