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In this months August issue of Classic Sports Car . Says its one of the 640 .
obviously the wheels are not correct but Im not a concours guys .
Christmas is coming honey , can I squeeze another Healey in the shop !!:encouragement::encouragement:
whos gonna call and ask the price ???????
 
Doesn't seem like there's much left in the engine that came from the factory that made it a "factory M". Block and head are different and I'd imagine the pistons and cam are new as well. So maybe the carbs and distributor are left from what it left the factory with? Must have been a lot of work to get that so-called 100S head to get the carbs back on the driver's side. It's interesting that the BMIHT cert shows the engine number as "originally .....". Never saw that before. It's a beautiful car, I wonder if the lack of the original motor will keep it from getting the $225k the seller is asking?
 
Nice car, though. Even a pro restoration like this can't find the correct windscreen bottom seal (sigh). Still don't understand why people fit an aftermarket steering wheel that blocks the driver's view of the speedo and tach. Looks like the same head my M has, and mine's stock.

Holy crap!!! "... Another improvement was the conversion from the original 6-volt electrical system to the more powerful and reliable 12-volt ..." That makes the whole description suspect (they may have meant they dumped the hard-to-source pair of 6-volts for a single 12V--very common, er, 'improvement'). As much as I like to see Ms go for big bucks, with all these discrepancies this is a $150K car, tops. The fully original, low mileage M Wayne Carini found, fixed and auctioned went for less than $200K IIRC.

With an unredacted BMIHT cert, we're likely to see 5 more of these with the same numbers in the near future. On further review, it looks like the last digit--a 6--of the aluminum cockpit trim may have been mucked with?

I just sent the following to the auction house:

"Your description is incorrect. All Big Healeys, from the BN1 to the BJ8--I have a BN2/100M and a BJ8--had 12V electrical systems. The 4-cyls and early 6-cyl cars had a pair of 6V batteries connected in series. Perhaps you meant to say the pair of 6V batteries have been replaced with a single 12V battery, which are easier to source (this would result in the loss of a couple points at concours)? Presumably, the (single) battery is located in the correct location, which is below the lid behind the transmission tunnel?

All Big Healeys had heads designed by Harry Weslake. The 100S heads had the intake and exhaust manifolds on opposite sides of the engine."
 
On further review, it looks like the last digit--a 6--of the aluminum cockpit trim may have been mucked with?

Agreed if you look closely it looks like it used to be a 7 that has been kinda sorta removed and a six put in its place .
Its way to much of a coincidence that all three pics of the different aluminium trim pieces have the last digit looking like its been altered or corroded and "fixed"

So a true 100M because of the intake/exhaust manifold configuration would have the exhaust exit on the passenger side ?
 
Healey Nut said:
On further review, it looks like the last digit--a 6--of the aluminum cockpit trim may have been mucked with?

Agreed if you look closely it looks like it used to be a 7 that has been kinda sorta removed and a six put in its place .
Its way to much of a coincidence that all three pics of the different aluminium trim pieces have the last digit looking like its been altered or corroded and "fixed"

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The fact that the last digit was the only one changed, from a 7 to 6, makes me suspect this was an assembly line mistake. It's a lot easier to believe that theory than to believe that the restorer of this vehicle manage to find the cockpit surround from the vehicle that was only one digit off in it's body number and then made a fairly poor attempt to change it.
 
Editor_Reid said:
Wrong jack. Wrong hammer. Tool kit very incomplete.

(Somebody had to say it.)
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And the year of manufacture (YOM) California plates are also incorrect. The 1956 plate letter sequence would have been A-G, and for an April 1956 car either a B or C sequence!!

The P series plate letter sequence would have been issued in 1958. :rolleyes2:
 
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