Gene,
Thanks. Your car was the first one I thought of when I posted my
statements. I know of several more cars from yours to body no. 62 and they
all have steel wings, which is after all what we are referring to when we
talk about all aluminum bodies.
FYI, the aluminum bonnet changed to steel at body no. *3397* (156120) and
the boot at *4129* (158100) This is from the Clausager book, which is not
always totally accurate but, in this case I believe it is. For example,
Clausager states that the *"Austin of England" *badge was changed
to*"Austin Healey"
* some time in Aug. of '54 when the rear reflectors were added. In fact my
car built in Jan. '55 had the rear reflectors (with brass versus aluminum
plinth bodies and orange reflectors) *and* the *"Austin of England" *badge.
This is also confirmed with many other original cars from around my
batch/body and chassis number (5179/7200 and 222660.)
Cheers,
Curt :{)
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Gene <genski434 at comcast.net> wrote:
> My Bn1 is the 27th in production (body 51) and comes with the aluminum
>
> shrouds, steel doors and fenders and the blue engine color. :))
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Curt/Nancy Arndt" <cnaarndt at gmail.com>
> To: "Chris Dimmock" <austin.healey at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Jim Cox" <Tappiokie at gmail.com>; "healey list" <healeys at
> autox.team.net>;
> "Mr.Finespanner" <mrfinespanner at earthlink.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 10:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Kathy Wissig's AH 100
>
>
> Listers,
>>
>> It was more than the first 20 cars that were all aluminum (Birmabright to
>> be
>> exact) but not much more. Blair Harbor's car, the first production AH
>> with
>> body no. 24, was all aluminum and the rumor was that the first 50 were
>> too,
>> but this has yet to be confirmed. We have confirmed that from body number
>> 50 on they were steel bodies with the aluminum boot and bonnet, but there
>> just doesn't see m to be a lot of production cars surviving prior to no.
>> 50.
>>
>> What we do believe is that most of the first 300 cars or so were painted
>> Healey Blue or Grey.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Curt :{)
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Chris Dimmock <austin.healey at gmail.com>*
>> *wrote:
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that was only the first 20 DHMCo cars that were all
>>> aluminium, but I'm going from memory.
>>> Most "early" cars had aluminium bootlids - my old BN1 152199 (Spruce
>>> Green,
>>> and since superbly restored by Keith, on this list) was about the 12th
>>> BN1
>>> imported into Australia, and had the aluminium bootlid, adjustable column
>>> and one piece dash.
>>> British Heritage even put that on the certificate I got back when a
>>> Anders did the certificates himself.
>>> Which effectively makes it a "later earlier car"
>>> ;-)
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>
>>> On 15/07/2011, at 5:45 PM, Derek Job <derek.c.job at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Weren't the first few hundred 100s still aluminium?
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Derek
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