The Roaring Season

Posted: **Tue Feb 02, 2021 7:47 am**

Roger Dowding wrote:Thanks ERC, for the links, will take some time and have a good look.

As an aside have just got one of your NZ Classic Car mags moved on to another guy, Jonathan Paape, who has bought a 1963 Chevrolet Corvette and it features in the March 2007 issue - so sending it off, only about another 240 odd to go [ Oh I have kept a few too !! - Healey and Triumph stories mainly]

Cheers
Roger

PPS

Harley Norager, I knew Brett Norager in my NSCC days, think his brother, and I am sure Harley was a member at some stage also.
Sadly another one gone, Bob Haldane recently too !!

It was Ross Haldane who died, not Bob.

Posted: **Wed Feb 03, 2021 2:01 am**

Milan Fistonic wrote:It was Ross Haldane who died, not Bob.

Milan, yes and I wrote it correctly on the NSCC page after seeing the note from Bob Kidd. now corrected, thanks.

Posted: **Sun Feb 14, 2021 7:42 am**

Saw this car today at a Car Show at Pahoia, near where I live in Omokoroa.
Car Show was organised by the local Mechanic Brian Kirk and the local Tyre Guy Steve Abbott.
Steve is the son of Russ Abbott who worked on my Triumphs and Austin Healey's in late 1970's early 1980's.

A good low key show with probably a couple of hundred cars [ left after an hour so didn't see the late arrivals.

" AWSTIN " The plate
Plate Type: Special Issue
Origin: Import from USA
Used as: Private Passenger vehicle
Cause of Latest Registration: Used
NZ First Registration: 31-Jul-2013 "

Details of the Car.

" Year: 1962
Make: AUSTIN-HEALEY
Model: 3000
Colour: WHITE
Second Colour: Black
Submodel: MKII
Body Style: Convertible
VIN: 7AT0WF05X13274966
Plate: AWSTIN
Engine No: 29E/RU/H2800
Chassis: HBT7L/16390
Vehicle Type: Passenger Car/Van
Seats: 2
CC rating: 3,000cc
Fuel Type: Petrol
Assembly Type: Imported Built-Up
Country of Origin: United Kingdom "

Part of the scene at Pahoia.

AWSTIN when it arrived

Under the bonnet - the Tri-Carb engine

Other views of the car

Posted: **Sun Feb 14, 2021 6:02 pm**

Roger Dowding wrote:Saw this car today at a Car Show at Pahoia, near where I live in Omokoroa.
Car Show was organised by the local Mechanic Brian Kirk and the local Tyre Guy Steve Abbott.
Steve is the son of Russ Abbott who worked on my Triumphs and Austin Healey's in late 1970's early 1980's.

A good low key show with probably a couple of hundred cars [ left after an hour so didn't see the late arrivals.

" AWSTIN " The plate
Plate Type: Special Issue
Origin: Import from USA
Used as: Private Passenger vehicle
Cause of Latest Registration: Used
NZ First Registration: 31-Jul-2013 "

Details of the Car.

" Year: 1962
Make: AUSTIN-HEALEY
Model: 3000
Colour: WHITE
Second Colour: Black
Submodel: MKII
Body Style: Convertible
VIN: 7AT0WF05X13274966
Plate: AWSTIN
Engine No: 29E/RU/H2800
Chassis: HBT7L/16390
Vehicle Type: Passenger Car/Van
Seats: 2
CC rating: 3,000cc
Fuel Type: Petrol
Assembly Type: Imported Built-Up
Country of Origin: United Kingdom "

Part of the scene at Pahoia.

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AWSTIN when it arrived

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Under the bonnet - the Tri-Carb engine

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Other views of the car

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was this a 3carb model when built as there was one at the waipu car show last weekend,Jayne had her first drive in A95 as I was riding my 750 honda. over one thousand cars & bikes turned up on the day, great variety

Posted: **Mon Feb 15, 2021 3:21 am**

Kevin Hirst wrote:was this a 3carb model when built as there was one at the waipu car show last weekend,Jayne had her first drive in A95 as I was riding my 750 honda. over one thousand cars & bikes turned up on the day, great variety

Kevin yes a Tri-Carb when built they were made for around a year in the 1961 -62 period - car originally LHD as shown by chassis number " BT7L ....
Car owner is a member of the Austin Healey club, spoke to him briefly. He had the cars details on the board shown above lying in the grille.

Close up of the board -

Good to read that the Waipu show was big,probably between a 100 and 200 cars at Pahoia.

The poster for the show

Posted: **Mon Feb 15, 2021 6:20 pm**

Roger Dowding wrote:Kevin yes a Tri-Carb when built they were made for around a year in the 1961 -62 period - car originally LHD as shown by chassis number " BT7L ....
Car owner is a member of the Austin Healey club, spoke to him briefly. He had the cars details on the board shown above lying in the grille.

Close up of the board -

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Good to read that the Waipu show was big,probably between a 100 and 200 cars at Pahoia.

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Must ask my daughter if she went along, she lives in omokoroa as well, are you coming up to auck again soon Roger at end of month for smales farm or anything like that, be great to catch up, Have cleaned up the pistons for 3ltr motor, had to set them up in lathe & cut them out with a one mil cut off disc set up on lathe, too iregular to try & use parting tool &also hard as hell, worked well so now all ready to assemble ,only need head gasket & rocker cover gasket, cheers Kev

Posted: **Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:39 pm**

Kevin Hirst wrote:Must ask my daughter if she went along, she lives in omokoroa as well, are you coming up to auck again soon Roger at end of month for smales farm or anything like that, be great to catch up, Have cleaned up the pistons for 3ltr motor, had to set them up in lathe & cut them out with a one mil cut off disc set up on lathe, too iregular to try & use parting tool &also hard as hell, worked well so now all ready to assemble ,only need head gasket & rocker cover gasket, cheers Kev

Kev, Hi,
Slow reply.
Auckland - was there a week or so ago for a few days, but not the right time for Smales Farm.
Will be good to catch up again at a future one, or a similar Car Show.
Waipu Show - looks like it was great.
I did however run the MX5 and think I have blown a heater hose as hen it got hot there was steam all through the engine bay and it came into the car. Hoping it is not more serious but did not have the time to really look at it.
Next time up will check it out - think the whole water / cooling system - radiator heater etc - needs to be drained and flushed and refilled. Never seem to have enough time when in the Big Smoke !!. Always lots of family things to do - the car gets a bit ignored.

Good to read that Jayne drove the A95.

From memory there were no Austins at the Pahioa Show, [just noticed an A35 in the photo - must have been the only one ] and only small Morris's including this one - a 1930 ish Morris Minor - likemy late Uncle had back in 1946/47 - his was a Tourer though.

Posted: **Wed Mar 03, 2021 7:36 am**

For all the Healeyites - check out this article by " New Zealand Autocar " magazine.

" https://www.autocar.co.nz/classic-revie ... rBH6xvYPqE "

Have seen the cars before and the 100 Six belongs to a TRS member.
The other 3 cars [ 100 - 4 and the two 3000's ] belong to the AHCCNZ President Mark Donaldson.

A trio of photos from the article: There are 42 plus the header.

The header - main - photo;

100 Six ( facing ) and the 70's racer ;

The group of cars and view of " Autoasis " as we called it back in the 1980's.

Mark posted the story on Facebook.

Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 2021 6:31 am**

Ardmore 1961 - the Russell Leathers Ruddspeed 3000 amongst several Austin Healeys. P Lawson and I Fraser-Jones
Cars were big Healeys unsure if 100's 100 Six or maybe early AH 3000's like the Ruddspeed

Newspaper article of the results at the NZ Grand Prix meeting January 1961.

Wigram 1961 the "Motor Cup Race " - cars at the start including AH race #25. I G Johnston in the AH 100
Also there was " Joss " E. Tims in the 100S and " Ed " E D Candy in the Healey Corvette - ex Arthur Kennard.

The Entry List for the " Motor Cup ".

All times from Graham Woods' vast archives.

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:26 am**

Posted: **Wed Mar 24, 2021 4:06 am**

Milan, Thank you for that advert - and with Colour too !!
Cheers
Roger

PS been away for a week, hence slow response - had no Wifi.

Posted: **Wed Mar 24, 2021 7:20 am**

Roger,
I don't think this Healey NOJ 392 will be towing a boat anymore !

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20929/lot/350/

'NOJ 392' - THE EX-WORKS MILLE MIGLIA AND LE MANS 24-HOURS , 1953 AUSTIN-HEALEY 100 SPECIAL TEST CAR
Registration no. NOJ 392 Chassis no. SPL 225B Engine no. 1B136876

Sold for £ 785,500 (US$ 1,082,866) inc. premium 2013.

(Ken H)

Posted: **Wed Mar 24, 2021 7:53 am**

Ken H,
" Roger,
I don't think this Healey NOJ 392 will be towing a boat anymore ! "

Very expensive tow vehicle for a " Tinny ".
I agree !!

Posted: **Sun Mar 28, 2021 5:02 am**

Roger Dowding wrote:Ken H,
" Roger,
I don't think this Healey NOJ 392 will be towing a boat anymore ! "

Very expensive tow vehicle for a " Tinny ".
I agree !!

What about this for a Tow Car .. the tinny would fall off the trailer.
Probably the most famous " modified " Australian AH 3000 - Ross Bond- the wheel flares just got bigger and bigger..

Small photo of a " Big " Healey.

Posted: **Mon Mar 29, 2021 4:49 am**

The car that featured at Torrey Pines in January 1956 - see Ken H thread on ;
" Early Days of Hot Rodding and Racing in Santa Barbara and beyond. " The car entered by W Pringle and driven by Roy Jackson-Moore and a certain S Moss

The car was in the first 10 100S built and " Despatched " in February 1955 mostly [ six ] to New York,
One went to Canada AHS3503 and AHS3510 went to a UK owner.
The car went to Gough Industries in Los Angeles but the customer is not mentioned
[ the other of the first ten cars all had purchasers named including Briggs Cunningham with AHS3501 which was unusual in that it was white with stripe ( blue ) and not Ivory over Black like the others ].

The Torrey Pines photo.

A small image that is part of the link Ken H posted

Another small image of the programme cover.

Ken's copy of the programme ;

The entry list - thanks to the link from Ken H.

Posted: **Mon Mar 29, 2021 7:30 am**

This AH 100 featured in NZ Classic Driver back in the July - August 2017 issue.
John Vevers photos from Caffeine and Classics 28 March 2021 [ yesterday].

Good to know it gets out and about. last saw it in 2017 in its own garage.

Posted: **Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:22 am**

BMCBOY took HL3000 to the 2021 Brit-Euro show - I wasn't there but John Vevers a BMC Guy was - John is into Austin 3 Litres, the 1800 style car with bigger bonnet [ to accommodate the straight Six - in line not the " C " series but a later development by BMC ] and boot.
A series of photos John Vevers took - he also took a lot of BMC/BL standard 8 / 10 and Wolseleys 6/99 and 6/110 etc.
Triple carbs were not normally on a 1959 AH 3000 [ MK 1 ] they were in 1961 -62 only, then back to Duals 62-63 on.

A picture of the car when Bill Dunster had a racing accident sits on the front seat

John was obviously fascinated with the engine

Posted: **Fri Apr 16, 2021 5:39 am**

More on Tri-carb Big Healey's this is a 100 Six;
Thanks to Patrick Quinn - The story relates to a post on " Healey Museum " Facebook page;
" A special 100/6 engine setup, Patrick Quinn send these remarks to the Healey Museum accompanied by these pictures:
"A BN4 that was raced extensively during the late 1950s and early ‘60s.
It has the early cylinder head that was modified to take three SUs, but as semi-downdrafts.
The head was designed by a chap who raced Austin sedans and while the carbs fit under a sedan bonnet they don’t with an Austin-Healey so the car has a slight bulge in the bonnet which you can just see in the first photo."

The Car which is in Australia looks like a good Racer.

Views of the engine ;

The photo that started the conversation as posted on the Healey Museum page - it started a lot of conversation with some details by our own Kevin Hirst who did a similar thing to an A95 Six with the 2.6 motor -taken out to 3 litres.

The 100 Six as posted by Healey Museum.

-compare the set up to both the ones above and BMC BOY's 1959 3000 with triples which are larger carbs HD8's I believe.

Posted: **Sat Apr 17, 2021 5:39 am**

BMC BOY's AH 3000 BN7 the 1959 model. Photo's 40 years apart.

As a twin carb version at Rotorua Rally in 1980 - my own photo

As a triple carb version in 2020, photo by Nigel Hunter Russell, taken on a Car Club day by the Formula Junior boys - BMC BOY has a Cooper single seater with a one litre BMC A series motor - a project.

Posted: **Sat Apr 24, 2021 2:27 am**

Period Advertisement of the Austin Range of BMC cars . Must be 1958/59 as has the first Sprite was 1958 and the Big Healey is 100 Six, the 3000 came along mid 1959.
Thanks to John Vevers for this gem.

The Roaring Season

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

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" AWSTIN " a 1962 Austin Healey 3000 Mk11 BT7 tri-carb

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The Tr-Carb " AWSTIN "

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Austin Healey 100, 100-Six, 3000 tri-carb and 3000 racer.

1961 - Healeys were racing .. Ardmore and Wigram

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AHS3508 - Engine # 222709 Body # 38

AH 100 an AH 100 with the NZ plate AH 100 an Auckland Car

HL 3000 the ex Bill Dunster car - owned since 1973 by BMCBOY

Tri-Carb 6 cylinder Healeys [ Austin - Healey's that is ]

HL 3000 the ex Bill Dunster car - as a Twin Carb and the Triple Carb version

Sprite Metropolitan 100 Six and Austins A35 - A125