G'day Bob
I continue to find it amusing that most of us spend a lot of time and $$$
trying to make our cars look the same and just like when they left the
factory, when DMH was very much an individualist.
There is a fascinating book listing ever single Jensen built. In the entries
of the 541 Coupe there is just one car that wasn't fitted with the original
4-litre Austin straight-six. It was delivered engineless to Donald Healey
who proceeded to fit it with an American V8 and automatic transmission.
Hoo Roo
Patrick Quinn
Sydney, Australia
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From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Bob Johnson
Sent: Friday, 7 August 2009 6:35 AM
To: Alan Seigrist
Cc: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Donald Healey Mini
Isn't it a little ironic? Here we are, for the most part, keeping our
Healeys, our tributes to Donald at whatever each of us thinks of as
pristine (original or restored, no difference here) and Donald gets
his hands on a car and hacks it all to hell, to suit himself. Makes
one wonder what we "should" be doing to our cars. ;^)
Bob Johnson
BJ8 that is really pretty original
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Alan Seigrist<healey.nut@gmail.com> wrote:
> The writer didn't seem to like the convertible conversion, but I think it
> looks nice. Interesting the rear fender treatment...
>
> Alan
>
> '52 A90
> '53 BN1
> '64 BJ8
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