On the last two BJ8's, the VIN numbers don't seem right...
HBJ8L 56236 = I don't think BJ8 #s went this high
HBJ8U 425736(or G) = I'm unfamiliar with the "U" designation or the "G"; and
it must have been a G 'cause otherwise there are too many digits.
Anybody able to un-confuse me?
GaryB
-----Original Message-----
From: Jackson Krall
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 1:07 AM
To: healeys at autox.team.net ; DANIEL WILLS
Subject: Re: [Healeys] gullwing motors '53 100 for sale
--- On Wed, 3/16/11, DANIEL WILLS <dndwills at verizon.net> wrote:
Is there anyone in the Astoria area
> that could check this out at Gullwing for $34, 750 in "good"
> conditiion?
Dan, Rich, Greg, Charley, Steve, and interested listers, I went to Gullwing
today. It's the kind of place you might like to go to on many, many days. A
bit overwhelming. I saw 7 Austin Healeys in 2 5000 sq ft+ rooms that were
cramed full of cars, kind of like those photos we've seen of just discovered
vaulted car collections. Due to lack of room it was difficult to thouroghly
inspect them and I didn't spend a lot of time there but the people working
there were friendly and told me to go ahead and climb over any cars in the
way.
Dan, that blue/blue 100 is tarted up. Rich summed it up quite acurately. I
could see rust thru on bottom of X, and the underneith is a mess in general.
Some metal work has been done but to a low standard with sloppy welding
visable in wheel wells and sprayed black to tie it all together. Rear end
was
very wet all over. The exterior paint does look good. My instinct told me
the
batteries in these cars would be dead and I did not try to start any of
them.
ID plate missing from frame. #'s on firewall BN1L 227517, 5441/9963,
1B227517M. I can only imagine theres a lot of wiggle room in the price of
this
and maybe all of their cars.
The spruce green(white) 100 looks worse in person with rh main frame missing
in cockpit area. I'm not easily scared by project cars but this one is
extreme. Plastic ID plate in foot well reads BN1L 158123, 1B 214220M
Sorry Rich, couldn't get to body #
Red BT7 project BT7L 11995
3 BJ8 drivers: 64or5? early ph2, brg, red interior HBJ8L 28120
66? blue solid original, original interior not too bad. Nice
paint but small rust bubbles bottom of boot lid, 75619mi.,Rear tube shocks,
HBJ8L 56236, 3222BJ8/81135, BMC 66 tag
67? brg is a bit light, bottom of dogleg rusty. An employee
started this car and it sounded great. HBJ8U 425736(or G)(?), ????/67437,
BMC67 tag. 15 footer
The nicest of the seven, which I didn't look at too closely, but a strong
looking rhd blue over white BN4 or BT7(sorry) with fat white w/w's is sold
and
on its way to Australia.
Best
JK
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