Trying to locate BN1L152555 '54 Healey LeMans

[BrettSutherland]

Well, it's been several days since I contacted the 100M registry both by e-mail and leaving a message on Bill Meade's voice mail and I have not received any reply. A couple of the e-mails bounced but then I found one that didn't but still nothing .... Highly disappointing from a group who pass themselves off as a registry of the LeMans cars. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/yesnod.gif

Brett

 

[John Loftus]

Well, I think Bill "is" the registry (not a group of people) and the people running the various registries do so to help with the hobby, not as a full time job. Perhaps he is on vacation or otherwise occupied. I would be surprised if he doesn't get back to you so would suggest to give it some time.

Cheers,
John

 

[BrettSutherland]

Thanks John ... I had planned to

Brett

 

[Michael Oritt]

Brett--

Bill Meade's "registry" is different that some of the others: Bill charges $$ for you to register--I did so shortly after I got my car in 1999 and aside from the initial mailing with copies of several old brochures and newsletters and the names of others who had then registered their cars I have not received anything else. Bill does sell a nice grill badge...

Rich Chrysler, who frequents this forum, recently accessed Bill Wood's 100 info--supposedly quite voluminous but I don't know how far along Rich is in organizing things.

What is it that are you after?

 

[BrettSutherland]

Hi Mike .... Lo these MANY years ago, like so many of us from Canada's Maritime Provinces, I went down the road to Toronto where I met and shared an apartment with Ken Armstrong from Fergus, Ont.. He bought former Canadian racing star Grant Clarke's '54 Healey LeMans. I have always wondered whatever became of that car as the last OI saw of it was in 1963 as it left Toronto for Fergus on a Flatbed. I have memories of lapping the valves in the living room of our apartment in the King and Dufferin Street area of Toronto. In these my advancing years I just thought I might be able to track the car down again and find out what happened to it. It really was a special car.

Brett

 

[richch]

Brett, et al,

I am not quite completely through the massive task of corelating and updating Bill Wood's Hundred Rgistry. Another week or so should see us pretty much up to speed. I now have chased down over 1200 numbers, and am now down to updating personal data, new addresses, changes of ownership and so on.
To this point I have no record of BN1L 152555. I will state of course that this car cannot be a so called "factory M" but would have been a BN1 from birth with the Lemans bits added some time later. In 1954 these parts were all available over the counter, or they could have been installed by the dealer or by the good folks at Warwick.
Meanwhile Brett, I have made a note of the number and will surely let you know of anything I find regarding the car, Ken Armstrong or Grant Clarke.

Rich Chrysler

 

[Bob McElwee]

We have a car in the St. Louis area that is a BN1 and has been certified by the 100 M "LeMans" registry. To partially quote from a letter written by Bill Meade to the current (second) owner (since Jan '58):
"However, your car is actually in a rarer group of only 14 known cars that have documentation to have been modified to Le Mans spec by Healey prior to the factory run of 640 cars." Seems as if at least 14 BN1's might qualify as a "factory M".
The car is unrestored and still driven occasionaly.