[Healeys] Early BN1 Photo

[Curtis Arndt]

Larry,

I spoke with John Wheatley about this car very at the Lake Tahoe meet back
in 2002. This was the prototype and the only body built by Tickfords,
versus all subsequent cars that were built by Jensen.  Thus the rarest of
the rare car being the first, a one off car built by Tickfords, the car
that started the legend, and unfortunately according to John, scraped many
years ago.  Very sad indeed that no one saw to save this piece of
automotive history.

The oldest known surviving 100 is AHX-3 owned by a member of our Concours
Committee.

Cheers,

Curt

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:03 AM, Larry Varley <varley at cosmos.net.au> wrote:

> Its interesting to note that there does not appear to be front shroud
> supports at the front of the chassis rails in the right hand photo. The car
> is purported to be Chassis number J4001  Is anything known of what
> happened to this car and the other prototypes?? If you look at the
> following page on my website you will also see the very early chassis
> design part way down the page with some explanation of the prototype
> sequence.
> http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/45.html
> Clearly there were prototype chassis designs before production began, it
> would be very interesting to know more history.
> Regards
> Larry Varley
> http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/
>
>
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