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Vintage Healey Pics
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If you follow the thread below to the bottom of the page you'll get some historic pics of Forrest (Bud) Dana with his Chevy powered 100/6 at Nassau Speed Week and in Cuba. Especially take note of the period 'safety' standards as he refuels 
Forrest (Bud) Dana Chevy 100/6
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Date: 07-25-1959
Description: Esther Williams Girls in front of the Cotton residence, a large one-story home, at 402 - 160th St. in Spanaway. Sports cars in foreground are an Austin-Healey (right) and a MG. Jaguar roadster is at far right to the rear. Several admirers are seated on the steps to the home which was just up the road from Spanaway Lake. The Girls were in Tacoma as part of the publicity surrounding the Washington Sports Shop being selected as Tacoma's exclusive dealer for the "Esther Williams Living Pool." (TNT 8/2/1959, pg. A-10)
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Interesting timing. Ester Williams turned 90 today.
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This thread gets better and better- thanks all for posting these pics/ links. I really enjoy the historic photos...keep them coming!
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"Nancy J. Stevens saved up for a year to buy an Austin-Healey 3000 MkIII in the mid-1960s. She was devastated when the car was totaled in an accident in 1970."
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Here's another of my vintage Nasty Boys. This one is rather famous, having been built by Max Balchowsky and featured in Hot Rod Magazine:
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More vintage Nastiness, this one from the HAMB:
The car, originally owned and developed by two brothers, is a very early '53 BN1 Healey 100 raced around 1956-1963 with a number of engine set ups. First, it ran the standard Healey engine, then the Healey engine with a 3-71 supercharger that protruded up and out of the bonnet, and finally it ran an Olds 324 bored out to "about 365" with a six Stromberg 97 carb set up. The alloy nose was custom rebuilt in the late ‘50’s after a paddock “ding” to the original nose.
In period the car held a number of local sprint and track records, and with its Rocket engine was written up in the Australian press as "....probably the fastest accelerating car in South Australia" and "the most powerful sports car yet seen in Australia...." (it's original owner told me it would lift it's front wheels a few feet in the air when under full acceleration).
In the unyielding quest for speed and victory the brothers built a rail dragster and the Olds Rocket engine was transplanted out of the Healey. It then gained a 6-71 supercharger and 8 Stromberg 97’s, and the custom gearbox & rear end was also lifted out of the Healey and bolted into the dragster. Picture a VW front end, two chassis rails, the Rocket engine, ‘box and rear end, a chair and steering wheel.
In full-anger whilst competing the engine in the dragster was lunched, as only a high speed miss-change from a mid gear to a low one will do.
End of the Rocket engine, and the rail’s and Healey’s racing career. Fortunately for the Healey after the dragster’s demise the Healey was re-united with it’s rear end and gearbox and was parked and left. It’s been off the road since 1963, and was purchased recently from one of the original owners, complete with pretty much everything bar the 324 donk, but also including the dragster’s 6-71 & eight Stromberg ‘97’s all set up as it last ran.
The car, originally owned and developed by two brothers, is a very early '53 BN1 Healey 100 raced around 1956-1963 with a number of engine set ups. First, it ran the standard Healey engine, then the Healey engine with a 3-71 supercharger that protruded up and out of the bonnet, and finally it ran an Olds 324 bored out to "about 365" with a six Stromberg 97 carb set up. The alloy nose was custom rebuilt in the late ‘50’s after a paddock “ding” to the original nose.
In period the car held a number of local sprint and track records, and with its Rocket engine was written up in the Australian press as "....probably the fastest accelerating car in South Australia" and "the most powerful sports car yet seen in Australia...." (it's original owner told me it would lift it's front wheels a few feet in the air when under full acceleration).
In the unyielding quest for speed and victory the brothers built a rail dragster and the Olds Rocket engine was transplanted out of the Healey. It then gained a 6-71 supercharger and 8 Stromberg 97’s, and the custom gearbox & rear end was also lifted out of the Healey and bolted into the dragster. Picture a VW front end, two chassis rails, the Rocket engine, ‘box and rear end, a chair and steering wheel.
In full-anger whilst competing the engine in the dragster was lunched, as only a high speed miss-change from a mid gear to a low one will do.
End of the Rocket engine, and the rail’s and Healey’s racing career. Fortunately for the Healey after the dragster’s demise the Healey was re-united with it’s rear end and gearbox and was parked and left. It’s been off the road since 1963, and was purchased recently from one of the original owners, complete with pretty much everything bar the 324 donk, but also including the dragster’s 6-71 & eight Stromberg ‘97’s all set up as it last ran.
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Hey 57
I hope that you were not the one that parked that car!
Bob
I hope that you were not the one that parked that car!
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Bob Hughes said:
Nah. That was the valet at the restaurant. :eeek:
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Bob Hughes said:Hey 57
I hope that you were not the one that parked that car!
Bob
LOL... no, just a pic I saw for sale on Ebay.
ps I'm still smiling after having my first Healey drive last night. Thanks Tim K!
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:lol: Either that's some heavy duty TSD rallye equipment or that thing's going to blow up when the timer get's to zero!
Another picture from the opening of the first motel in Denmark.
And a race picture from Roskilde Ring racetrack in Denmark, 1956. Elo Sørensen posing next to his Austin Healey. Car still exist today, first registered july 16. 1954. Before that he raced in a BMW 328 and in 1958 he switched to a Lotus Le Mans.
And a race picture from Roskilde Ring racetrack in Denmark, 1956. Elo Sørensen posing next to his Austin Healey. Car still exist today, first registered july 16. 1954. Before that he raced in a BMW 328 and in 1958 he switched to a Lotus Le Mans.