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Hello All,
I am relatively new to this forum, although I have visited it on accasion for several years. Some of you know me from the other Healey forum but I though I would introduce myself with a little history.
I bought my Big Healey, a 59 BT 7 in 1971 and drove it for 11 years, two years as my daily driver. In 1982 I started to do a refurbish and got only as far as pulling the head from the engine. It has been in various dry storage since then, excepot the last two years where it sat covered in front of my garage. With a little help from my wife, we got the garage clean enough to roll it inside so I can start on it again in earnest.
The Healet has survived three marriages and several career changes and I have resolutly held onto it, knowing I would get it running again. I did some work on it /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif, mainly getting the surface rust off so it does not become worse and have been very happy not to find any serious rust.
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I refurbished two MGBs and a couple of Sprites for a friend of mine (he crashed the first one) and worked a short time as a prep sander in a shop that did retorations and although I am not a proficient body man, I am competent with the simple stuff.
I am currently a teacher, substitute since California is broke and there is fierce competition for teaching jobs, and I also teach driver education/training and traffic violator classes (I help people get their license and keep their license). Having four part time jobs keeps me too busy with little time to put into the Healey. I will get back to it and I appreciate the collective knowledge of these forums. Oh that I had this kind information 20 years ago.
Cheers /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif
Dave Duffey
Paradise, CA
I am relatively new to this forum, although I have visited it on accasion for several years. Some of you know me from the other Healey forum but I though I would introduce myself with a little history.
I bought my Big Healey, a 59 BT 7 in 1971 and drove it for 11 years, two years as my daily driver. In 1982 I started to do a refurbish and got only as far as pulling the head from the engine. It has been in various dry storage since then, excepot the last two years where it sat covered in front of my garage. With a little help from my wife, we got the garage clean enough to roll it inside so I can start on it again in earnest.
The Healet has survived three marriages and several career changes and I have resolutly held onto it, knowing I would get it running again. I did some work on it /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif, mainly getting the surface rust off so it does not become worse and have been very happy not to find any serious rust.
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
I refurbished two MGBs and a couple of Sprites for a friend of mine (he crashed the first one) and worked a short time as a prep sander in a shop that did retorations and although I am not a proficient body man, I am competent with the simple stuff.
I am currently a teacher, substitute since California is broke and there is fierce competition for teaching jobs, and I also teach driver education/training and traffic violator classes (I help people get their license and keep their license). Having four part time jobs keeps me too busy with little time to put into the Healey. I will get back to it and I appreciate the collective knowledge of these forums. Oh that I had this kind information 20 years ago.
Cheers /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif
Dave Duffey
Paradise, CA
