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Randy Forbes

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Hello Randy Forbes, thanks for the photo's

Now that's what I call a well used original car. They don't come any better than this. How much patina do you want?.

regards,

bundyrum
 
anthony7777 said:
randy, all it needs is a 5 gal. bucked of bondo and some cans of red spray paint. :jester:
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Blasphemy!! :nonono: :nonono: :nonod: :nonod:



:jester:
 
The 100S panels were all aluminum so I don't think the beading was required. It appears that the front panels were welded together as well.
 
Shane said:
The 100S panels were all aluminum so I don't think the beading was required. It appears that the front panels were welded together as well.
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There are beads on the front fenders, the rears are missing.

The fenders are not welded to the shrouds/inner structures.
 
The 100S is one of my all-time favorite automobiles. Thanks so much for posting!
 
Randy Forbes said:
Shane said:
The 100S panels were all aluminum so I don't think the beading was required. It appears that the front panels were welded together as well.
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There are beads on the front fenders, the rears are missing.

The fenders are not welded to the shrouds/inner structures.
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Thanks Randy, I thought I had corrected my post, but it didn't go through.

BTW, great photos...are there any more?
 
What is this car? OON 440 is in Arthur Carter's collection.
So is this the car that was built with the black 100S out of the bits left over at the end of the 100S production run?
If so why does it have this plate on it? Does it live in the States?
 
You can find the complete story of this very special 100S - AHS 3804/00N 440, in the May 2007 Austin-Healey Club of American Magazine, "Healey Marque". The detailed article by Joe Jarick of Queensland, Australia will answer most of your questions. BTY, the editor of this fine publication is the BCF's own Reid Trummel. He my have an old issue for you.

Dougie
 
Genos2 said:
Thought 100/S, had crossflow aluminum head,guess I'm wrong. Cheers Genos2
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Come on Geno, don't you know your Healey history. Most of the 100S models were supercharged too........................

Dougie
 
As can be seen from the photos of the motor, the 100S does not have a crossflow head. The ports are located on the opposite side of the cylinder head, and there are eight of them, unlike the siamesed ports of the standard motor. This layout allows more room for the ports as they are remote from the pushrod tubes.
The cylinder head design of the 100S was applied to the six cylinder motor when Austin improved the breathing and power output during 100/Six production.
I only know of one works supercharged 100S motor, which was used in the Land Speed Record Streamliner. That iron headed motor now resides in a 100M.
 
I found the article by Joe Jarick ... thanks ... but if I understand it correctly he says that 3804 did NOT do the Mille Miglia in '55 because, amongst other reasons, it wasn't built until the end of '55 after the production run. This is the sister car to the black 3601 as I thought. Still don't understand why it's wearing the OON plate and '55 MM number!! Wierd!

Here's JJ's article

https://www.healeyclub.org/images/HealeyMarque.pdf
 
Joe Jarrick is unquestionably the expert on 100S matters so I believe we can assume AHS 3804 did not run in the Mille Miglia

Why does it wear the plate OON 440?

I believe that its because its former owner Fred Hunter believed, rightly or wrongly, that it was the Mille Miglia car.

About 10 years ago when I began my website he sent me the following information about the car for inclusion in the Mille Miglia section


'This car was in fact the older special test car SPL-224B which had recently been refurbished to the specifications of the latest 100S production cars and numbered AHS 3804.

The car had been prepared as a "gift" from Donald Healey to Ed Bussey of Ship and Shore Motors of West Palm Beach, to thank him for all the help he had given the Healeys at Sebring.

Before it could be delivered to Bussey, Healey realised he was going to be short of cars for the 1955 Mille Miglia which was shaping up to be a very exciting race, and so the car was pressed into service with great results. It was painted red and bore the registration number OON 440, that actually belonged to car SPL 257B, which had been damaged in the Carrera Panamerica race.'

I included that info on my site and in fact its still there - I'll have to amend it.

One other interesting point to note re AHS 3804.

In 1957 three Streamlined '100-Sixs' ran at Sebring. These cars had the six cylinder C- series engine fitted and the bodywork was the same as the 1956 Bonneville endurance car. Little concrete info is available about these cars but the feeling is they were based on 100 chassis not 100-Sixs. The entry list for the 1957 race shows one of the cars as being AHS 3804! Could it be that this car was rebodied and re-engined for the race and later in life returned to its 100S form? Interesting stuff.
 
That's all very interesting and I agree that I don't think that it can possibly be the Mille Miglia car because 3804 and 3601 are known to have been built up out of the bits left over after the production run and that puts it late in 1955. It's interesting that the reason given for the plate switch is that OON 440 was damaged in the 1954 Carrera Panamericana. My books say that it was the other two 54 Special Test cars (OON 439 and OON 441) that took part in that race and it was 439 driven by Carroll Shelby that was damaged when it drove into some rocks.
Good stuff about the Streamlined cars at Sebring 57. I suppose it would make sense that they were on 100 chassis and I am sure that Phil Stiles would have been keen to drive 3804 again after its result at Sebring 56.
 
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