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Re: Redford with Healey - captions

To: "Chris Dimmock" <cd3000@bigpond.net.au>
Subject: Re: Redford with Healey - captions
From: Randy Hicks <Healey100M@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 09:45:22 -0500
I know of at least one factory built '56 100M with the smaller BN1  
fender opening, that are original to the car.

No way of telling from that photo.

Randy Hicks
'56 100M (large openings)
'65 BJ8
'53 MGTD
Healey100M@gmail.com

On Jan 1, 2006, at 8:56 PM, Chris Dimmock wrote:

> Very interesting Rick,
>
> The way he's crouched beside the car, looking at the front guard -  
> holding his head (with an 'oh shit' look) - got me to look a little  
> closer....
>
> Is that  a BN1 type 'smaller wheel opening' 4 cyl guard?.... i.e.  
> its either a BN1 or an early BN2 front guard.
>
> So maybe Mr Redford is thinking...  is it a BN1 with a Le Mans  
> Modification Kit - or one of the 640 documented BN2 'factory 100Ms'.
>
> Is it an early BN2 which still had BN1 type guards - a genuine 100M  
> - or is it a BN1?
>
> Maybe he's thinking.......
>
> "If only I'd asked the Healey List for their opinions before I  
> bought this on Ebay as a 'genuine factory 100M - I knew I should  
> have just bought a 3000"
>
> :)
>
> Chris
> www.myaustinhealey.com
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Neves"  
> <Rick@genomictechnologies.com>
> To: "Healey list" <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 11:17 AM
> Subject: Redford with Healey
>
>
>> I saw a program on the Sundance Channel today. I was called  
>> Iconoclast with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. There was a  
>> picture of Redford with a 100-M.
>>
>> I grabbed a bitmap
>>
>> www.RickNeves.com/RedfordWithHealey.bmp




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