Ken
I think I can add something on the 58 grid. These cars were real 100-Sixs
entered by Hambros. They were entered as 100-Six "MM"'s (Mille Miglia) which
as you know was an unofficial model name for the 6 port head cars.
The race programme refers to them as 100MMs but that's obviously an error.
Bill Kincheloe did drive one of the cars and it was him who confirmed this
MM info to Ron Yates. Ron (who tragically died in a Healey last year)
supplied me with the fantastic picture of Bill Kincheloe driving this actual
car at Laguna Seca. (Its on my web site on the page called Race Pics)
www.healeysix.net
Attached is another picture of one of the streamliners. I cant remember
which book I got it from but the book said (incorrectly as we now know) that
only one of the 57 cars was a streamliner. This car has its fuel filler in
the same place as a 100S and not a 100-Six.
Derek
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From: Freese, Ken [mailto:Kendall.Freese@Aerojet.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 7:30 PM
To: 'Derek job'; 'Wm. Severin Thompson'; 'Patton Dickson'; 'Keith Turk'
Cc: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Streamlined 100-Sixz
Not much is published on these cars. Per Geoff's book, they are not the
same car as the Bonneville car, just same styling.
The sn 3804 is probably a mistake as that is Fred Hunter's 100S and I am
pretty sure it didn't run Sebring that year and certainly never had body
work like those pictures.
Per Geoff's book, one of the Sebring cars received the Ferrari F1 bits and
raced at Nassau in 1957 with the Ferrari engine driven by Peter Collins.
There is a picture somewhere so the paint scheme matches the Sebring car
number 23 or 25. Then the Ferrari engine was replaced by a AH 6 again and
raced at Nassau 1958 by Roy Salvadori.
That experiment was called X224.
I would like to see a picture of the 1958 grid as I am a bit confused on if
the team cars had standard bodies or the streamlined bodies. I have seen
published quotes both ways. I believe Bill Kincheloe got one of the 58 team
cars to race in America.
Another nice couple of pictures is in Chris Harvey's book, Healey the
Handsome Brute. It shows number 23 at the Cape, I believe. It has a wrap
around windscreen and a 4 inch windscreen wiper and other 100S type cockpit
details. Also a fishtail exhaust tip!
The Dipstick Digest #24 shows a streamline car leaping into the air at
Sebring after hitting a hay bale. No lasting damage done. The photo was
originally in Autosport.
Ken Freese
65 BJ8
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From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-healeys@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Derek job
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 10:31 PM
To: 'Wm. Severin Thompson'; 'Patton Dickson'; 'Keith Turk'
Cc: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Streamlined 100-Sixz
Any info you can get would be greatly appreciated
DErek
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