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Just picked up this site from google yesterday. Have been a bit crook with the flu this week so browsed about 50 pages of the Healey forum and found lots of useful info.

A bit about me: Ive owned and fiddled with cars for the last 30 odd years. Started with a beetle my dad gave me and added wide wheels, a new dashboard and a supercharger with a throttle system fashioned from meccano, it was fun setting it up as it used to blow flames out of the 2 exhausts, one each side of my leg as I remember...

After that I graduated to mk1 cortinas and anglias, putting 1500gt into the anglias and lotus twincam into the 2nd cortina. Then decided rallying would be the thing and bought 1300gt escort mk1 and again put a twincam in it and rallied it for a couple of years - great fun!

Since then I've owned all sorts of oddities from triumph 2.5pi which had at university through to 73 RS 911 (which incidentally does NOT live up to the hype) rebuilt a 1300 GT engined locost racer with a HAyabusa engine and then bought a Healey BJ7 because I've always liked the look of them. Well seriously I wanted a classic sports car and a convertible, but not any old girly thing and it had to have a bit of go too. AH seemed to fit the bill. And bills there have been!!! Spent 4000 uk pounds on an engine and gearbox rebuild from 'experts' to correct blue smoke, low oil pressure, O/D not working correctly, overheating, running on etc and guess what - it still does ALL these things!

Looking forward to getting to grips with it myself now with the combined knowledge of you great blokes behind me, if thats not too presumptuous!?
 
Hi There JCSH,

"Welcome" the "Thee" best "LBC" forum anywhere on this planet.

Personally, I have owned just about every Brit Car you can think of with the exception of an Austin Healey. I wish I had a project like yours (I think)?

Anyways, Introduce yourself to the "Healey" forum gang and fire away with comments, questions, pics or whatever else may turn you on.

Best Wishes,

Russ
 
Hello JCSH, and welcome to the Forum. come on over to the Healey forum!!
 
Welcome! By all means hit the Healey forum... but don't stay stuck into just there! Your experience with EnFo and Lotus could be of help in other forums too!!

We had a Mk-I Lotus Cortina for a bit over a decade, Herself used it as her daily transporter. I kick myself (for fobbin' it off) every time I think about it.

North or south island? I ask 'cause I've a mate down on the southern one.

and again, welcome!
 
Thanks for the warm welcome guys! Im in Nelson at the top of teh south island. For those that dont know it (!) it has an 'alpine' pass road of some 20km duration to both its East and west, which, if the healey gets any 'stick' over will, up to now induce a boil up and she throws all her water out!
 
oh bother.

And summer's comin'!!!

I've a good friend down in Oamaru.
 
Gidday Mate!! welcome aboard.Ex Wellingtonian here.Due to visit around Christmas.I'm tempted to come and look at that Healey while I'm there.

Stuart. :cheers:
 
You are welcome Stuart - actually there are a number of big healeys in Nelson . I think NZ with its speed limits, fairly deserted roads and clement climate suit the Healey driving experience fairly well...
 
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