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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-AT link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Patrick,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Your understanding is probably right: John Chatham writes in an article (<a href="https://www.ewilkins.com/wilko/ah4000.htm">https://www.ewilkins.com/wilko/ah4000.htm</a>): “Six modified chassis were thus put together by regular Austin-Healey chassis supplier John Thompson Motor Pressings and dispatched to Jensen which built the 3000 bodies.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In Bill Emerson’s The Healey Book you can see the prototype with British license plate TNX65G in British Racing Green and without any badge on the bonnet. And there is a picture of a white 4000 with license plate PWD663F and what looks like the old Healey-badge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>From the white 4000 with chassis 624W1628 (ex DMH, then Arthur Carter and Allen Casavant) I saw three efforts to sell the car. Twice in 2008: by the dealer Classic Restorations for GBP 250000 and at an auction where it was a No Sale at $350,000. In 2013 the German dealer Auto Salon Singen offered it again with POA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Reinhart<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Reinhart Rosner<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>55 100 BN 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Vienna </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>–<span lang=EN-GB> Austria<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Patrick and Caroline Quinn<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Dienstag, 23. Jänner 2024 08:30<br><b>An:</b> healeys@autox.team.net<br><b>Betreff:</b> [Healeys] Austin-Healey 4000<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Greetings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Through the wonders of Google it’s easy to translate the Dutch to English.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>My understanding is that in period a total of six widened new chassis were made for the Rolls-Royce powered cars. Three complete cars were made. Then sometime down the track, one of them was in a severe accident and one of the three leftover chassis was used in the rebuild. That car was finished in red and imported into Australia in late 1974 and I drove it in January 1975. That car has since been fully restored in Old English White and remains in Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>When in the UK later in 1975 I met Peter(?) Cox who was the owner of another Rolls-Royce powered car that was finished in British Racing Green. I had the pleasure of driving that at an Austin-Healey rally at Donington Park. That is the car in the Dutch Healey Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>The third example, also finished in white, ended up with Alan Casavant and as far as I know is in Switzerland.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Sometime in the 1980s or ‘90s a replica was made in the UK by ex-pat Australian Keith Boyer and featured in a UK magazine. I have a recollection that it was finished in red, but I may be mistaken.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>What is interesting is the chassis number of the car coming up for auction in Belgium (not the Netherlands) is BN4460941 while the chassis number of the car in Australia is F 41.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>With anything that is rare, it’s always important to pay due diligence to its history.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hoo Roo<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Patrick Quinn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Blue Mountains, Australia</span><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>