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    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.<br>
    Cheers<br>
    Larry Varley<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/10/2015 12:33 PM, Patrick &
      Caroline Quinn wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Greetings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I would be
            surprised if the first car was scrapped, more like bits of
            it were used in other experiments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Best wishes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Patrick
            Quinn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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              lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""
            lang="EN-US"> Healeys
            [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net">mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Curtis
            Arndt<br>
            <b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 3 October 2015 11:08 AM<br>
            <b>To:</b> 100healey<br>
            <b>Cc:</b> Healey List<br>
            <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Healeys] Early BN1 Photo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Larry,<o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal">The oldest known surviving 100 is
                AHX-3 owned by a member of our Concours Committee.<o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal">Curt<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:03 AM, Larry
              Varley <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="mailto:varley@cosmos.net.au" target="_blank">varley@cosmos.net.au</a>>
              wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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<b> </b>Chassis
                number J4001<b> </b> 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.<br>
                <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/45.html"
                  target="_blank">http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/45.html</a><br>
                Clearly there were prototype chassis designs before
                production began, it would be very interesting to know
                more history.<br>
                Regards<span style="color:#888888"><br>
                  <span class="hoenzb">Larry Varley</span><br>
                  <span class="hoenzb"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/"
                      target="_blank">http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/</a></span><br>
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