[Healeys] Early BN1 Photo

Fri Oct 2 20:33:47 MDT 2015

Greetings

I would be surprised if the first car was scrapped, more like bits of it were used in other experiments.

Both the BN3/1 and BN3/4 started life as very early four-cylinder cars before the six-cylinder engines were fitted in ’54 and later. There are lots of bits in both cars that are certainly not akin to production cars.

The X numbers used by the DHMC referred to experiments and not complete cars. My car, the BN3/1 was X207 and according to Geoff Price when he was speaking to an earlier owner it originated as a pre-production chassis. Whether this is true or not, I have no way of telling.

Best wishes

Patrick Quinn

From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Curtis Arndt
Sent: Saturday, 3 October 2015 11:08 AM
To: 100healey
Cc: Healey List
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Early BN1 Photo

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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