Charlie,
My car is a 60 BT7L4422. It had a red fan as original. I may have
missed it, but what is the number of the car you have?
Lin
1960 BT7 "The Bloody Beast"
1959 Bugeye
On Sep 9, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Rich C wrote:
>> Charlie,
>>
>> The red fan blades carried on 'till at least the end of 1960 on the
>> earlier 3000's. It was some time in early '61 and from then on that
>> the
>> fan blades were painted yellow.
>> It would be great if a number of us Concours committee members could
>> review the car. Of course the show and judging season is pretty
>> much over,
>> but there's always Kingston, Ontario AHCA Conclave next June. I
>> would love
>> to be able to wrap a tech session around such a car. Any possibility?
>>
>> Rich Chrysler
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Charlie Baldwin" <mgcharlie@comcast.net>
>>> I had talked to the former owner before Encounter and told him
>>> that he
>>> should put it through the concours evaluation process, but it didn't
>>> happen. The judges could then draw what they may from it. I would
>>> welcome anyone from the concours committee to look it over.
>>> One thing that puzzles me is that the original fan is painted red,
>>> which
>>> I always thought should be yellow on a car of this vintage. The
>>> original owner was not the type to mess with this sort of thing and
>>> according to the second owner who I bought it from, that is how it
>>> was.
>>> He was apparently an owner of New Holland Tractor in Lancaster
>>> County,
>>> PA. The car was actually bought for his wife as a birthday gift.
>>> The Healey spent it's first five years in a heated and air
>>> conditioned
>>> carriage house, but after the old man died the widow turned off the
>>> climate control.
>>> I forgot to mention that the original exhaust system is also with
>>> the
>>> car, though a stainless steel unit is currently on it. Apparently
>>> the
>>> muffler was quite noisy, probably the interior of it had all
>>> disintegrated over time.
>>> Charlie
>>>
>>> Alan Seigrist wrote:
>>>> Charlie -
>>>>
>>>> If you have the time you should make the car available to someone
>>>> from
>>>> the Healey Club who will document and picture the car in detail for
>>>> concours information purposes.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Alan
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