[Healeys] Shelby

[HealeyRick]

Don't know if it was done with a Healey, but Car and Driver rather
(in)famously did it with an E-Type.
Here's the history of that: *http://tinyurl.com/n5baofe
<http://tinyurl.com/n5baofe>.*   My Dad bought a '67 Pontiac LeMans with
the Sprint version of the OHC motor.  It had a Rochester Quadrajet, hotter
cam, split dual exhaust manifold and 10.5:1 compression.  It was pretty
peppy, but refused to run on anything but Sunoco 260.

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Jonas Payne <jpaynepbr at cox.net> wrote:

> Pontiac has a sweet ohc 6 at the time, wonder if anybody has ever put one
> of those in?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 24, 2015, at 4:25 PM, HealeyRick <healeyrik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The way I heard the story was that Shelby wanted to put a Chevy motor into
> the Healey.  Chevy didn't want to sell the motors (perhaps because they
> didn't want competition for the Corvette) and BMC didn't want the Healey
> chassis to go to Shelby.  I think DMH would have welcomed more power in the
> Healey. OTOH, if DMH stopped using the BMC 6 motor, it would have cost BMC
> some money, so I can see why BMC wouldn't want Shelby to get the Healey
> chassis.  Can't say I know "for sure", but that's the story I heard.
>
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>> So, I'm reading (yet another) Shelby/Mustang story in the Jan. issue of
>> 'Auto Restorer' magazine, and it claims 'Donald Healey refused to sell
>> Shelby rolling chassis for his new sports car (me: the Cobra) because he
>> feared it would best his Austin-Healeys in competition--which, of course,
>> it did.'
>>
>> I've always heard/read the DMH was OK with the idea, but BMC was not.
>> Anyone know for sure?  I believe DMH and CS were friends.
>>
>> Bob
>>
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