Austin-HealeyÂ’s and the Austin Healey Car Club of NZ and Others

[Roger Dowding]

Memorabilia / Regalia / Collectables - call them what you like ..
Came across these with connections to Austin Healey ..

These were Rally Plaques - issued by BMC to the various Marques A-H MG, etc for wins class or main classification.

the B - BMC Bag with all the various marques mentioned ;
The A - H side

The " Other " brands - Nuffield side

Thanks Milan for the adverts, more for the archives
and
Thanks Ray Bell for the map details - will have a good look, and I do remember a road running parallel to Mona Vale Road - somewhere off there was the Rubbish Dump - Transfer Station - a road that went South towards Frenchs Forest - from memory !

[Ray Bell]

If it's the one I know, that was some kilometres further along...

Old stamping grounds, eh?

[Roger Dowding]

" Old stamping grounds, eh? "

Indeed, Ray - just looked at a map..

The Recycle Station was in Belrose - on the road that went from Mona Vale Rd neat Terrey Hills, there was also a Centre there where big retailers had " surplus stock " store - used to visit often
Looking at a map I also see Powderworks Road
- My bus from Brookvale went through there. I used to get the more direct bus that went the main road - until one day was a bit late and my lovely Manager - years younger than me " Tore a Strip of me " as they say - so used to get the slower earlier bus [ an hour earlier ] that went Powderworks - and have about 30 minutes to grab a scone and a coffee and chill out before work.

Great memories, later worked in Newport ( on the beach almost ) and got the Branch Managers car to get to work from Dee Why - magic and low stress..

[Milan Fistonic]

Another advert from Motor Sport, this time April 1958.

[Roger Dowding]

The car is owned and raced and rallied by Tim Pyne - in Australia and has ventured to other parts of the world.
Car is registered in WA and came to NZ for the 2000 Targa
This article from New Zealand Classic car dated November 2000 [ I don't recall seeing it and if I did haven't kept the Magazine - May have to try for a Back Issue ] - the scans are by owner Tim Pyne.

The article ;

To follow are some other photos of the car from Tim's archives.

[Roger Dowding]

Photos from Tim Pyne's own archives. taken at various events.
The Lady is Tim's co-driver and partner Brigitte ..

[Roger Dowding]

Story from Tom Parkinson - Admin for the Austin Healey 100S Facebook page.
Tom owns [owned an AH 3000 UJB 143 ].


1st Photo - Terry Valmorbida in AHS3909 into the bales Albert Park the GP meeting 1958

The story - for the last four photos;

" 1958: Albert Park - Melbourne GP - synchronised cornering of #61 AHS 3906 Jim Goldfinch and #77 AHS 3909 - Terrry Valmorbida /Paul Hawkins].

Plus #61 [AHS 3906] being undercut by Bill Paterson [Cooper T39] - both cars road registered.
1956: Australian TT.

Add in Ross Jensen [#18], gun NZ driver on AHS 3908 and we get to see all five 100S that ran at Albert Park between 1956 and 1958. Jensen's car was Weber-equipped and ran a fastest lap of 2 minutes 10.2 sec compared to Whiteford's fastest of 2:09.8. Whiteford retired, Jensen was 8th outright, Phillips [AHS 3906] was 10th. Sam Miller [AHS 3905] did not place. Moss and Behra [Maserati 300S] dominated. Fastest lap by Moss : 1:55.8.

1957: Victorian TT [March 1957] Ron Phillips [#9 AHS 3906] fresh from winning the 40-lap AGP Sports Car race at Caversham WA on March 4th., crashed out of the TT at Albert Park after the engine "blew up". He did however set the fastest AH time at Albert Park of 2min 8.8sec. "

The photos; in order as above.

[ERC]

Just remember I have several boxes of NZ Classic Car awaiting your collection Roger!

[Roger Dowding]

Just remember I have several boxes of NZ Classic Car awaiting your collection Roger!

Yes Ray I know - " One Day Roger Fitch - One Day " when this is over and I get to Auckland - they will be going the Hillcrest as the family house is vacant again - Am hoping to get the MX5 back there too in a Garage to work on.

How many Magazines Ray ? - an estimate - would be great if this one is there Nov 2000.

[Kwaussie]

Just spied this car for sale today - using a Healey 3000 frame with Devin body

http://race-cars.com/carsales/other/1560275283/1560275283ss.htm

[ERC]

I'm sure that one will be there Roger. I have just about all up until about May 2014. There are 6.5 x 5 ream paper boxes.

[Ray Bell]

Put those in the boot of a Healey and it'd drag its tail something terrible!

[Roger Dowding]

I'm sure that one will be there Roger. I have just about all up until about May 2014. There are 6.5 x 5 ream paper boxes.

Thanks, ERC,

Should not be a problem - so when we can [ as in allowed to travel ] get to Auckland, will be in touch.

Cheers

and Ray Bell, Re " Put those in the boot of a Healey and it'd drag its tail something terrible! " - I once [ around 1987 ] went to collect a load of bricks in my late 1970's Minivan - a 998 cc one from the President of AHCCNZ, Mark Donaldson .. the drive home was interesting as the steering was amazingly light, probably should have pumped the rear tyres up to over 40 psi, like you did for speed events ..

The van survived - it was a great workhorse - had the Dominion Motors wagon conversion - a folding back seat and sliding side windows. It lived the with the AH 100 and the MGB GT a " BMC menage a trois " with a foreign interloper as the daily driver.
Here in real life

Here in a diorama I am working on while I can't get to work on the MX5 or pick up ERC's magazines and sort out the 6 huge boxes from seaqnmac Sean that I collected over a year ago .. first was inertia now covid -19 is the excuse !!.

[Roger Dowding]

Australian 100S cars - a few photos from Melbourne in 2006 when they were there in force to support the AGP -

AHS3905 and AHS3906 being loaded on a Transporter in Adelaide heading for Melbourne.

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On the grid at Melbourne

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both Tony Parkinson photos

Four AHS well five actually OON 441 is a works car one of the 5 - that were built alongside the 50 customer cars.
AHS3904, 3905, OON AHS3901 and 3906.

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Tony Parkinson archives.

Posted before - this of four of the AHS along with a Cooper Bristol which is a famous car too !!.

Melbourne 2006.. Michael Cass photo - Paul O'Neill archives
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[Roger Dowding]

As mentioned on a new thread - Barry Moon racer of an Escort in the Leisuretime series and also an Austin Healey guy, passed away a couple of days ago - knew Barry from around 1981 - 82 when he bought his first Healey a Blue AH 100, and joined the Club. I bought my first Big Healey a 100 in early 1982 [ Been a Sprite Man four times prior to that ].
AHCCNZ President Mark Donaldson advised me that Barry was still a AH Club member and until recently he and Hazel attended a few meetings in recent years.

A photo of Barry in his later Healey a 3000 that we travelled to Masterton and back for the 1989 AH Club Rally.

Another photo - think I was the rope holder this time.

Prior to Leisuretime the Escort et al, Barry raced a Mini - seen here at a Hill Climb in 1970 ..

A Graeme Lindsay photo - ACC event so guess Chamberlain Road

See my last post was an " Epic Fail " all the photos fell off.
Will try again another Day.

[Roger Dowding]

A sequence of photos from Jonathon Whitehouse - Bird posted on the Sebring Sprite Facebook pages.

" Sebring 1962. The Healey 'works', alloy bodied, Mk.II Sprites of Stirling Moss, Steve McQueen, Innes Ireland and Pedro Rodriguez line up before the start.

The Le Mans type start sequence follows, with Moss opening up a sizeable lead by the end of the first lap. ".

Photographer now known - Jonathan Whitehouse-Bird purchased them form the great American Photographer Dave Friedman who was a prolific Photog in the late 1950's - 1960's onwards.

Moss in the lead

Have a few more photos of the cars and the surviving one Race #22 of Pedro Rodriguez - some from the event others are of the car today.
Not Concours but in good condition with the Patina of its life visible - will be for another post

Lots more photos have come to light on these Alloy Bodied Mark 11 Sprites at Sebring in 1962,with Moss, McQueen Ireland and Rodriguez.
Some more form the Dave Friedman collection of Jonathan Whitehouse-Bird, and some others from Douglas Morton - who was there - will add to the story for all of us Spriteologists ..

[Milan Fistonic]

Prior to Leisuretime the Escort et al, Barry Moon raced a Mini - seen here at a Hill Climb in 1970 ..

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A Graeme Lindsay photo - ACC event so guess Chamberlain Road.

This must have been that event.

[Roger Dowding]

This must have been that event.

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Thanks Milan for that - well before I met Barry in 1980/81.
see the Mini-max in there before Ross Hollings owned it to - will pass that onto Ross, with your permission.
Was near your place on Wednesday - lunched at Courtyard Cafe in the main street on the way home from Auckland. Cheers

[Roger Dowding]

An Austin Healey Saloon - well this had the same motor as the 100/6 [ 100 SIX ] at 2639 cc.
... and as I told the owner of the car Kevin Hirst, a few of us Sprite Guys in the AH Club back in the mid 1970's nearly bought a wagon to use as a tow car for the Sprites ..needed a trailer too !! .. the story was that although we had good ideas we had no spare money - so it never happened, even though we knew a guy selling an A95 wagon -
PS there was a nice one here when this photo was taken by ERC the wagon in the background - spoke to the owner Ron I think was his name a member of the Flying A Club..

Converted the photo to Monochrome to be in period..

Thanks ERC for the photo and Kevin and Jayne Hirst for the car being at Caffeine and Classics - last Sunday.
My own photos to come.

A photo -posted elsewhere of an A95 at Bathurst - with a rather modified 2.6 motor .. have the details on it too !

another well used A95 that actually had the Ruddspeed Austin Healey 3 litre motor - as run by the McLaughlin Brothers.
The motor went back into the Ruddspeed, after a Austin 4 Litre motor was removed.

[Ray Bell]

Graeme Tribe (or John Moxon) in 1966...

DNF, apparently.

Entered also in 1965 but didn't start.