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Was at the cruise nite tonight with my 57 Pontiac. Spoke to a local painter/body man about the healey. He tells me that he had one a few years ago and that he went to a guys place that had a few wrecks behind his house, in the woods, sitting in deep spagnum moss. He found some knockoffs hidden in the moss. He is going to try and remember the guys name so that I can go and see whats left. If I do I'll take the camera and post some pics here.
 
Well today I decided to try and find this place with the Healeys in the moss. I had a rough idea as to where the place was and found it. Drove up a long driveway and up to the house and was met by a couple of dogs and a friendly young school boy. His older brother came out of the old farmhouse and I told him who I was and that I had heard that there was suppost to be some cars around there . He said that there where and that he would show me them so off we went. Came to a small clearing and there was a volvo, chevy pickup, another old car and the remains of some healeys. They had been completely torn apart. I did find a good BN? grill and bumper and there was the reare end of a later model. A front end with a 6 cyl minus the head, some rads and doors and the rear axle from a 100 I think. Also some rusted spoke wheels and solid wheels. The older brother said that he would get the parts I wanted but there wasn't much left worth while collecting. Oh well it was fun!!!!!!!
 
You have to try... who knows, maybe next time it'll be a garage with a dusty 100S begging for a new home....
 
In my job as a building inspector I drive all over the place in the back country inspecting. One thing I do especially now that all the leaves are off the trees, is to look for old cars . I did get out and wonder around a property that was for sale and found a 54 Buick resting behind a shed. It was all original but slowly being consumed by mother earth!! LOL. A big attraction is driving past an open garage and straining to see whats inside.
 
I would think that Ontario would be pretty hard on cars left exposed to the weather. Perhaps you were lucky just to find anything at all left there.

But talking to people is the trick... I've been told there's someone up a farm road somewhere near here that got an AC Ace to restore years ago... what do you take for your eye-strain... I could use something...
 
ya the weather does take its toll on cars around here. Back in the 60's-70's there where some enterprising individuals that would park a car crusher in an area and go around collecting vehicles . I heard stories about many muscle cars being crushed!!!!! Now all thats left are ones that escaped! LOL. I do get to meet lots of people and during our conversation I do ask about old cars, hot rods and banjo's ( I also play and collect them). I have a friend that traded an old snowmobile for a '69 camaro, 4 spd, with a BB 396. He later sold it to a couple of guys for $15,000.00.
The search continues!!!
 
Reading this post leads me to reccomend a new book that I found on Amazon last week. It is called "The cobra in the barn" and it is full of the stories of "found" cars including a Healey.

Awesome holiday read, I couldn't put it down until I finished it!
 
hi velodromeracer,sounds like a cool book!if you search this subject here in this forum "healey graveyard" or "swimming pool healey" youll find some interesting stories and some picts.as well, submitted by our fellow members. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif
 
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