<html><body>These two 100 coupes were featured in Bill Emerson's book: "The Healey Book" pgs. 106 &108. Bill gives a good brief history of their development. As mentioned it was designed by Coker (sketch K1 110) at Donald's request ("to do a coupe version") (X220 & 221) and finished at Dick Gallimore's shop to Donald's specs.<div><br></div><div>You can also find a good article in "Austin-Healey Magazine" about the restored version of OAC1-the blue car. ONX113 (chassis #142615) was the red coupe and Donald's personal ride.</div><div><br></div><div>Both bodies were assembled onto BN1 chassis at Jensen in 1953 but the second car was not collected from Jensen inventory, and not finished until 1955. It sat in Jensen's inventory as "prototype body" until finally billed out later. I have the Jensen financial records, dated, from 100 production showing the 1953 production and the two coupe prototypes on the books and what month they shipped out of inventory.</div><div><br></div><div>Perry, what you need is specifications from Jensen (not Austin or Warwick) as they molded the body to the chassis and added the various body components.</div><div><br></div><div>A great source of Jensen factory records is Richard Calver. His book: "Jensen-All the models" covers every body shipped out of the Carters' Green and Kelvin Way plants. You can find the story of the two coupes on pg 186 of his book. In his book, you will also note the similarity of the coupe to the Jensen 541 of its time. Richard had access to all of Jensen's files. He may have some of the original drawings and records of where the components came from. Regards, Hank, healeyhelper.com<br><br><div class="reply-new-signature"></div><p>-----------------------------------------</p>From: "Perry via Healeys" <healeys@autox.team.net><br>To: "healeys@autox.team.net"<br>Cc: <br>Sent: Tuesday July 14 2020 12:23:17PM<br>Subject: Re: [Healeys] FW: Coupe<br><br><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Listers </p><p class="MsoNormal">More to my post from yesterday. Thanks to some very close up photos of DMH’s personal coupe widow trim and windows, it seems apparent that the car was not a collection of production parts used or modified to fit the design but coach built one off parts as some others thought. With that the newer version of a 100 coupe will probably follow suite. Come up with a design, hash out the details and then attempt to make the design a reality. </p><p class="MsoNormal">If anyone has more info on the topic that you would care to share with me it can be done of the list.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks</p><p class="MsoNormal">Perry</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></healeys@autox.team.net></div></body></html>