[Healeys] Early BN1 Photo

[Larry Varley]

Hi Guys, while we don't want to go too far into letting the truth ruin a 
good story, personally I think Donald Healey didn't scrap much of 
anything. There may well have been a company line not to tell everyone 
what was built out of what, and even today in small business you don't 
throw away anything of value. So who knows what turned into what in the 
early years. I have always struggled with the story that the streamliner 
was scrapped due to corrosion.
Cheers
Larry Varley

On 3/10/2015 12:33 PM, Patrick & Caroline Quinn wrote:
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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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