[Healeys] BN1 Grilles

[Curtis Arndt]

William,

Without a photo it's hard to tell, however there are some so-called NOS
replacement grills that have a flatter top, and I can tell you from the
experience of others, that yes these are a bit too short and do not fit.  A
friend scrapped this type of grill during his restoration and found an
original had it restored and it fits just fine!.

To answer your question, in my opinion no... the only car with the "peaked"
grill was the prototype Earls Court show car.  I have talked to the owner
of AHX-3 the second Austin Healey pre-production car, and oldest existing
AH, and I believe that his grill is not peaked.

I have a front shroud and several grills and will test fit a few and send
photos.

Cheers,

Curt

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 3:13 PM WILLIAM B LAWRENCE <YNOTINK at msn.com> wrote:

> In the midst of the refurbishment of my 100 I have discovered that the
> grille that came with the car is about 1/2" to 3/4" short of fitting the
> grille opening in the shroud in the vertical direction. I had considered
> this to be due to production tolerances and planned to modify the shroud to
> fit the grille, but then it occurred to me that there are a couple
> different grille designs for the 100s and that this being an early car may
> have been equipped with an earlier version of the grille.
>
>
> Does anyone have any information on whether any early cars were equipped
> with the earlier peaked grille (as used on the prototype) or how many if
> any were equipped with the interim flat topped grille and whether there
> would have been differences in the size of the grille opening.
>
>
> If I have the wrong grille I would like to explore acquiring the correct
> part rather than modifying the shroud.
>
>
> Thanks to the group.
>
>
> Bill Lawrence
>
> BN1 #554
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