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Re: [Healeys] front wing cut-out

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Subject: Re: [Healeys] front wing cut-out
From: Healeyguy <healeyguy@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 21:10:11 -1000
Our early BN2, #228086, built 23 August 1955, has original front fenders 
(wings) and the measurement on both are 7-7/8 inches. Hope that info doesn't 
require rewriting the Concours Guidelines. One car does not make a rule........
Aloha
Perry


> 
> There were actually 3 different front wheel opening sizes on the 100s. 
> The 
> size of the opening is best measured by the distance from the top of the 
> wing above the highest point of the wheel opening straight down to that 
> opening.. 
> 
> On the earliest 100s, from before body number 900 (body # 883 documented), 
> this distance measures anywhere from 9 3/8 to 9 1/2 inches.  These early 
> '53 
> BN1's have the smallest front wheel openings as Bill Barnett (#663) and 
> Roland Wilhelmy (#724) can attest.  BTW, this comes from personal 
> observation on almost a dozen original cars. 
> 
> On the later BN1's and *around the first 600 BN2's* this distance is a 
> consistent 9 inches *+*. 
> 
> On the remaining BN2's the wheel opening was increased substantially and 
> this distance now measures 7 1/2 to 7 3/4 *+* inches.  There are even some 
> reports of early BN2's with one small opening wing on one side and a large 
> opening wing on the other, but these are not well documented. 
> 
> This is all well documented in the Concours Guidelines. 
> 
> Cheers, 
> 
> Curt Arndt - 
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