• Hi Guest!
    If you appreciate British Car Forum and our 25 years of supporting British car enthusiasts with technical and anicdotal information, collected from our thousands of great members, please support us with a low-cost subscription. You can become a supporting member for less than the dues of most car clubs.
    There are some perks with a member upgrade!
    **Upgrade Now**
    (PS: Subscribers don't see this gawd-aweful banner
Tips
Tips

Healeyween

Share this page

BertVanBrande

BertVanBrande

Member
Country flag
Offline
Kids loved the monster car in my garage yesterday! It's a 56 BN2 currently undergoing total restoration. I am prepping the car for media blasting and from there it will go in body restoration and paint, while I clean, repare and prepare all parts for final assembly which I hope to start in about 5-6 months.

Body work needed: replacement of floors, sills, rockers, lower fender areas, 3 outriggers, crossmember...

Engine runs strong, planned upgrade: 100M style hood, carbs, cold-air-box, maybe side exhaust...

The car came with a BN1 transmission with an improvised rear mount but I sourced a replacement BN2 transmission through this forum. I have been reading a lot of interesting posts but this is my first post. I hope the healey-ween picture comes accros ok.

Cheers,

Bert
56 BN2 WIP
Newbury Park, CA
(Belgian expat in california)
 

Attachments

  • 88128-healeyween.JPG
    88128-healeyween.JPG
    53.8 KB · Views: 172
Bert...nice touch...your picture came out nice and clear...good luck on the project...don't envy you at all...until it's finished...then that's another story...

How did you come to rebuild this? Done it before? Had some experience? Why a Healey? Enquiring minds want to know?
 
I aways loved British cars, my neighbour had a XKE V12 coupe... One of my friends sold and restored British cars in Belgium. I took a body restoration evening course 2 years ago, loved it. I was initially shopping around for a MGA but could barely fit in the car (6'5") and discovered the bugeye and Big Healeys.

As my job brought me to California (Supervised the animation pipeline technology for "The Polar Express" and now "Monster House") I decided to get started with this hobby (some might call it a desease) ;-)

Irony is that the job keeps me from working a lot on the car so I am finding a good balance between work done by professionals: media blast, rust-repair, body and paint and on the other hand the stuff that I like to or can do myself: preparing the car, mechanical work, assembly,...

Why a Healey or BN2: The car has a wonderfull design: pure and simple, bodylines are perfect, no nonsense... everything came together perfectly. Add on top of that the racing history and speed records, quite an accomplishment for a small car/company. And oh yes, there seems to be something special about Healeys that attracts those special people that are interested in something special... ;-)

Bert
 
Welcome to the forum. I recently did an article for the AH Mag on media blasting, if you are interested PM me. Don't know how much help it might be, but you are welcome to it.

As far as the time, I certainly can't help there. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Back
Top