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Pretty Please - add it to our Events forum(s) and add to the calendar! >> Junk Healeys
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anthony7777
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smaceng, i read this is in the manual "one should never long term park a healey outside in the rain,snow or too near an outhouse!"... 
anthony7777
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keoke, thats what all them blue boxes with the white tops are in the backround!, sides i only got three in my yard, one fur me, one fur me wife, and the one fur da guests what even got toilet paper.
dougie
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Smaceng -
Junk and Healey in the same sentence? I prefer the optimistic terms "parts" or "donor" car which leave me feeling there's still hope yet for them. You never know where you'll uncover that rare find.
Cris Vandergriff told me their Hollywood Sports Car '61 MKII Healey of the "Six-Slug Slugger" Sports Car Graphic article and Ronnie Buckmun's record 19 straight wins out of 20 races, was sold off and lost somewhere in Cali. Cris suggested that if he would have been 5 years older when his dad Chick and legendary race tuner and engineering genius Doane Spencer were running the race program at HSC they would have never sold any of their old race cars. The lower Healey in your second picture looks like it my have been modified for racing at one time. I'm just saying........................
Junk and Healey in the same sentence? I prefer the optimistic terms "parts" or "donor" car which leave me feeling there's still hope yet for them. You never know where you'll uncover that rare find.
Cris Vandergriff told me their Hollywood Sports Car '61 MKII Healey of the "Six-Slug Slugger" Sports Car Graphic article and Ronnie Buckmun's record 19 straight wins out of 20 races, was sold off and lost somewhere in Cali. Cris suggested that if he would have been 5 years older when his dad Chick and legendary race tuner and engineering genius Doane Spencer were running the race program at HSC they would have never sold any of their old race cars. The lower Healey in your second picture looks like it my have been modified for racing at one time. I'm just saying........................
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dougie said:
I think Monte Shelton bought Ronnie Bucknum's Healey. Has long since sold it of course, but if you're interested you should ask him about it.
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smaceng said:
You know, it just kills our foreign friends when they see stuff like that.
I remember a quote from an Australian Healey enthusiast to the effect that they will restore so much as a Healey shadow, and there we go stacking up perfectly good restoration candidates like so much unwanted scrap metal.
bob hughes
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Editor_Reid said:
Looks like a good starting stock to me, specialists over here will restore anything for a customer or even take a chance themselves for a sale later. Generally, they would restore up to rolling chassis and possibly body, leaving the engine untill a buyer comes along, then complete to order.
Legal Bill
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smaceng said:
Perhaps you could share the address or phone number with the board?
Imagine of one of those two 100s is a factory M......
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smaceng
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I'll call the owner of the Healeys and see if it is OK to share his contact information with you guys. I didn't mean when I titled the post "Junk Healeys" to mean it is junk to all, but it was certainly was being treated as junk, stacked like cord wood and rusting away in the elements. I hoped that someone could take enough interest to make better use of the cars.
Scott in CA
PS This morris minor was in the "best" shape of all.....major rust was "just" the floors!
Scott in CA
PS This morris minor was in the "best" shape of all.....major rust was "just" the floors!
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BabaKahawa
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Those looked like my healey before the restoration......
How much money will those take.....
How much money will those take.....
bob hughes
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nevets said:
I'll go halves
Brinkerhoff
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Scott, after lookin at the cars you'll be lucky if he doesn't call. Could be for the best. Usually when I miss out on a deal I keep sniffin real hard like and another one , a better car comes along. When I lived in So Cal ( Fontucky)I'd just missed buying a weird MGA with a funny motor and solid wheels but with the same nuts that wire wheels have on them out of a junkyard. It ran and had no rust on it but i told the guy "Hay , I ain't buyin it if you don't throw in that other funny aluminum headed engine with it. " and to console myself went into the Sierra Room , a dimly lit shadowy place where suds and likkers are sold over the counter to other down on their luck chaps. It is there I met a dowdy older gal who'd taken a fancy to something I was carrying in my pants ( heh , heh) and she told me of her Healey 3000 with three carbs on it that her ex could never get right. My friend Gary and I had to cut a 10 inch tree down to open the garage door to pull it out. I thought 500 bucks was way too much doe but what the heck it cleaned up ok. ( its the light blue car in my signature) Now its some fancy " Concours Gold " blah , blah blah, I wasn't really paying attention. My mind wanders . You have a life full of treasures. ahead. Kevin