<div dir="ltr">Joe Cox sold his car to the Healey Museum last year.<div><br></div><div style>Derek</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 1:20 AM, BJ8Healeys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sbyers@ec.rr.com" target="_blank">sbyers@ec.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Graeme, I had the following exchange earlier this evening with another<br>
lister:<br>
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Larry, there is some confusion in my mind about the identities of the three<br>
4000s that were built (it's a little-known fact that I am also the Registrar<br>
for the 4000s (winking smiley face inserted here on the original).<br>
<br>
One of the cars (a white one, VIN 624W1628) was purchased by Allan Casavant<br>
of Charlotte, North Carolina in 2005 from Arthur Henry Carter of Norfolk,<br>
England who had owned the car since 1978. Mr. Casavant displayed the car at<br>
the 2005 AHCA Conclave in Winston-Salem, NC and he also drove it on the<br>
annual mountain tour sponsored by the Carolinas AHC in August 2006. I saw<br>
the car at both events. Mr. Casavant was the "sugar daddy" of the proposed<br>
A-H museum to be established at the Virginia International Raceway, but he<br>
had the misfortune to go through a nasty divorce and ended up having to sell<br>
off his 4000 (and a Silverstone, and probably a lot of other stuff I don't<br>
know about). That's how the Healey museum ended up in The Netherlands<br>
rather than in Virginia. The car was offered for sale, and then I lost<br>
track of it until I saw the video by The Healey Factory.<br>
Is it the same car? Well, both are white and have the UK (style)<br>
registration number PWD 663F. That was the license plate on the car when I<br>
saw it, and the car in the video has the same plate.<br>
<br>
Of the other two, VIN 460W1001 (UK registration TNX 65G, a green car) was<br>
owned by Peter Cox of Gloucestershire and at last report was owned by his<br>
son Joe, also of Gloucestershire. The third, VIN ADO/1002 or ADO24/1002<br>
(was white, now red, or maybe now white) is the car owned by Peter Rowland.<br>
Previously owned by John Gray, England (offered for sale in the AHCA<br>
magazine Chatter, February 1994), previously owned by Steve Pike, Australia<br>
(1974 - ?), and before that by Frank Allenby, England (Healey Highlights,<br>
December 1975).<br>
<br>
It's very possible that the car at The Healey Factory is different from the<br>
one that was owned by Allan Casavant. But then, why do they both have the<br>
same UK registration number?<br>
<br>
If you can shed any light to correct the histories or any of the other data,<br>
I would very much like to have it.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Steve<br>
<br>
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Hi Steve, are you sure about your information on the 4000? I have coffee at<br>
the Healey Factory every Saturday morning, and the only 4000 I know of being<br>
there is now fully restored and owned by Peter Rowland, Rob Rowlands<br>
brother. That car has been in Australia for a very long time.<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Graeme Molony [mailto:<a href="mailto:molony@dodo.com.au">molony@dodo.com.au</a>]<br>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 7:51 PM<br>
To: Max Byers; 'healeys'<br>
</span><span class="im HOEnZb">Subject: Re: [Healeys] follow up on emails of buyers<br>
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</span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">Steve<br>
<br>
Not sure where you got your information from regarding the Rolls Healey 4000<br>
being imported from North Carolina into Australia as to my knowledge there<br>
were only 3 ever constructed with 2 still in England and one here in<br>
Australia<br>
<br>
Unless another one has been imported recently the car restored by The Healey<br>
Factory for the owners brother back in 2011/12 was originally imported into<br>
Australia by Steve Pike of Marsh Classic Restorations in 1974 from the<br>
United Kingdom and has had only two subsequent owners including Peter<br>
Rowland. Details of this car and its recent restoration appear in an article<br>
in my local clubs magazine 'Hundreds and Thousands' in July 2012<br>
<br>
You will all know Steve from his Streamliner project car and his appearances<br>
at Bonneville and more recently for his restoration of one of the original<br>
100S - NOJ 393 which to my knowledge is still the most expensive Healey ever<br>
sold.<br>
<br>
While there have been a large number of BJ8's imported into Australia over<br>
the past few years ( We still have only approx. 300 hundred including my<br>
car according to Patrick Quinn's records ) and only 8 were originally<br>
imported this has now come to a grinding halt due to the devaluation of the<br>
Australian $ which is only equivalent to about $0.75 US<br>
<br>
In fact the worm has turned as a few days ago I was in at the Healey Factory<br>
and they were converting a BN2 with some 100M add-ons back to left hand<br>
drive for re export to a buyer in the USA. Go figure that<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
<br>
Graeme Molony<br>
( BJ8 29 yrs )<br>
Mt. Martha<br>
Aust.<br>
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