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Re: [Healeys] E bay... M-Models

To: kentmclean@comcast.net, healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] E bay... M-Models
From: ATIGHTPROD@aol.com
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:08:31 EST
Just to add in my two cents about the "M" models, I guess I own the  
earliest M of all. According to my Body Production Card, Form 141, C.A.B. 
Serial  
#146497(hand written in), my car is actually a B.M.1.,  H.P. of 16, Body No. 
598(hand written in), Body Type,  HEALEY SPORTS.
    It's build date is 29 October 1953. I'm sure the  B.M.1. is a typo on 
the card, but I I guess that make it an M non the  less.
 
Steven Kingsbury
BM1 #598
 
 
 
In a message dated 11/10/2009 5:24:48 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
kentmclean@comcast.net writes:

Patrick  Quinn wrote:
> I just have to keep reminding you blokes that the cars  you own are not 
"REAL
> Healeys", they are Austin-Healeys.
>  
> While the Austin-Healey 100 is most certainly the purest to the  original
> design it is still an Austin-Healey.

But for one  brief, shining moment, the car stood on a stand at Earl's 
Court in 
1952 as  a Healey 100 -- no hyphen, no Austin. Then Leonard Lord got to 
DMH, and 
it  became an Austin-Healey. So the Healey 100, at least that one example, 
is a  
"REAL Healey". The thousands that followed are Austin-Healeys. I have one  
of the 
rare non-M models. :)

-- 
Kent McLean
'56 100  BN2
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