The Roaring Season

Roger,
It certainly helps to work at a place like Moss Motors in Goleta, CA. The company has been around since 1948 and there are many cupboards of books, magazines, blueprints, newspapers etc. It is like working in a automotive museum and getting paid for it !
I feel very blessed.
Ken.

ERC wrote:There is one local who has had a very nice 100S replica built up. Ellerslie 2004. (He already has a beautiful Healey 100.)

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Goodwood Revival 2009, there was a good turnout.


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Hi Ray, are you saying that the 100S in the first photo is a replica? Because that is a genuine 100S - it's lower grille makes it distinctive amongst 100Ss. You photographed the same car at Goodwood 5 years later.

The car was first owned by a guy in the USA called Vincent Sardi (http://www.georgeellis.com/100). After a number of owners (http://www.racingsportscars.com/chassis/results/AHS%203507.html) it went off the radar and was discovered by Bill Lillibridge, who restored it and, during his ownership, shipped it to NZ at the encouragement of someone high up in the AHCC at the time (around 2004 by the look of it). It hung around NZ for about a year, while being offered for sale internationally for (IIRC) USD $250,000. To begin with the NZD was worth 50 US cents, making it a half million dollar car (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/motoring/news/article.cfm?c_id=9&objectid=3549133).

By the time it sold, the NZD had strengthened and the buyer had negotiated the price down - my recollection is that it ended up selling for the equivalent of NZD $350,000. I (like several others) got to store and drive it. Nothing I've driven since comes close in terms of cost!

New Zealand Classic Car magazine even did an article on it: http://magstore.nz/products/nz-classic-car-magazine-issue-164-august-04

Hi Alan. Wow! I assumed that the pic was in fact Mike's car (with the under grille) but if Ross's pic is Mike's car, then my first pic must have been the original. I wasn't aware it was the same car in the Goodwood car park, despite the lower grille.

I knew Mike was building a replica 100S and assumed (wrongly it seems) that at the Ellerslie show, that was his and must therefore have been a replica.

I was talking to John Holmes from TACCOC (shown in that first pic!) recently and mentioned to him that it is so difficult these days to accurately annotate photographs, as you see a car in the street pass you by, you snap a pic, then you can never tell whether it was a Westfield Eleven or a genuine Lotus. John's comment was that the more Lotus badges, the less chance of it being genuine...

Thanks Alan for that. Now I have to shift the pic from my 'replicas, recreations and specials' category and into Austin Healey.

then you can never tell whether it was a Westfield Eleven or a genuine Lotus. John's comment was that the more Lotus badges, the less chance of it being genuine...

Which is why mine is labelled as Tina Lotus (This is Not A )

Thanks to Steve, and ERC, thread name is now more purposeful, in view of my recent content,enjoy..

and another Healey shot..or two.....
My 1965 Sprite,Westmere 1974

a Curve on the road to Snowmass in 1982, full of Healeys ..

Mark Donaldson AH 100 and a Sprite 1989 Ardmore Reunion

Not A- Healey but an FL1, Hire Car version of a London Taxi, Mt Albert 1973, powered by the same basic motor of the Healey 100, just the A70 size, 2.2 not the A90 size..2.7 litre

my Sprite at Mangere Town Centre Gymkhana, Ross Hollings was there too in a Mini Cooper.. 1974

Here are some from me ,now on the correct site.

As mentioned in the Laguna Seca 1982 thread, Monterey Historics, Ross [ BMC BOY ] and I toured the West Coast for three months with Bryan and Brenda Harris in a VW Kombi, included in the trip and the reason for going was the 30th Anniversary of Austin Healey 1982.
Many NZ Healey Club members went, Craig Swift, Frank Karl, Grant and Odelle Cornes, Bernie and Julie Huynen, Mark Donaldson,
- most went back after Snowmass in July, but Ross, B and B, and I did the Kombi trip,covering San Diego,into Mexico, then up the West Coat to Vancouver BC Canada, in company of Mark Donaldson NZ and Nell Holdstock [ Canada ].. during July thru September.
I left for the UK on 23rd September,leaving the trio and the VW, here are some Healey related, photos,[ in groups as scanned from a photo album ] ..
They are not in any particular order.

mainly in LA, Santa Ana or Oxnard Ventura


On the road to Snowmass


getting there and a Sprite at Snowmass ..


an interesting sticker acquired at the Jaguar Owners Club Oregon JOCO, British Field meet. in 1982.



Ken Hyndman will recognise the name " Absolutely British ",as a mutual acqaintance Eric, now runs it,a client of Moss Motors, was Walt Glendenning [ dcd ] then Hans Nohr's business in the 1980's ..

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Ross thanks, the group of cars look like an All British Day at Western Springs..keep them coming ..

Healey 100S, trailered to and from, Snowmass from the East Coast.


Healey and trailer, John Colgate,Healey works driver with flip sign at a cafe / bar in Aspen
Bill Boltons Sebring 3000 UJB 141, a famour car
and the 100S again


At Snowmass, [ clockwise ] - Wire wheel
- not every car arrived safely,
- Nash Healey
- and a competitor in the Gymkhana, think a British Columbia car ..
- Sprite engine

A picture by Ross Hollings .. at a concours,possibly the All British Day at Western Springs.
Ross hope you don't mine resizing and reposting your picture


Sprite at Mangere Town Centre 1974, NSCC Gymkhana . my own camera shot..


1960 Bugeye with the famous Sammy the Dog in Mt Albert around 1980/81


Bill Wild's 100 in St Mary's Bay Road about 1978..


1965 Mark 111 and the TR4A in Mt Albert around 1979


My Healey 100, 1955 model with Hotwire mags, a very poor replica hardtop, taken from a proper one and was very thin fibreglass, with vinyl outer layer, it has Austin A50 saloon front brakes, quite small and real Healey 100 rears, made for interesting stopping, the back used to sit down, in an emergency stop !!.
March 1982 just after being purchased for $5500, which was an OK price at the time, despite being unoriginal.. car was owned until 1995, had two serious competition outings 1983, the Jaguar Clubs Le Mans Relay Race, and the AHCCNZ Otaua Hillclimb plus numerous AHCCNZ Gymkhana'a and a run around Taupo on the way back from Napier the 1984 AHCCNZ National Rally

Phil Mules 3000, on the track


in the pits



another Healey 3000, in a group on track ..

Chris White 3000 ..

Chris suffered a medical incident but was A OK afterwards .. and is still racing .. more recently in a Jensen Healey [ sorry no pics of that but seen at Pukekohe in the early 2000's

Enjoying the Healey pics Roger.

There were a couple of Healey related articles on the Stuff website recently
http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/customs-classics/77187608/rev-your-engines-for-the-marlborough-hospice-classic-vehicle-display-and-picnic-day

http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/customs-classics/76728232/restored-nz-grand-prix-austin-healey-to-make-worldwide-show-debut

I'm reliably informed that there are some significant errors in the second article.

Do you happen to have any pics of BT768, a white Longbridge BN4 that was owned from 1974 till 95 by a school teacher from Tamahere near Hamilton. Not sure if she was ever a club member though.

Andy.

bce257 wrote:Enjoying the Healey pics Roger.

There were a couple of Healey related articles on the Stuff website recently
http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/customs-classics/77187608/rev-your-engines-for-the-marlborough-hospice-classic-vehicle-display-and-picnic-day

http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/customs-classics/76728232/restored-nz-grand-prix-austin-healey-to-make-worldwide-show-debut

I'm reliably informed that there are some significant errors in the second article.

Do you happen to have any pics of BT768, a white Longbridge BN4 that was owned from 1974 till 95 by a school teacher from Tamahere near Hamilton. Not sure if she was ever a club member though.

Andy.

Andy will go through my stuff as have Healey photos from the mid 70's, bought my first Sprite in 1974, still have hundreds more, am away from home at present, but will check it out ... know Tamahere too !!, my wife is from the Waikato - Frankton ..

cheers

Roger D,

Does anybody know of an earlier Big Healey that could be available for some film work. What is NOT wanted is an immaculate resto. Short notice.

Oldfart wrote:Does anybody know of an earlier Big Healey that could be available for some film work. What is NOT wanted is an immaculate resto. Short notice.

Oldfart, try " Mark H Donaldson " at the AHCCNZ, Facebook page have his phone number but will be in the Auckland phonebook lives in Papakura on the Papakura Clevedon Road,is the historian for Healeys and the oracle too !! am away from home at the moment

Oldfart wrote:Does anybody know of an earlier Big Healey that could be available for some film work. What is NOT wanted is an immaculate resto. Short notice.

Oldfart, try " Mark H Donaldson " at the AHCCNZ, Facebook page have his phone number but will be in the Auckland phonebook lives in Papakura on the Papakura Clevedon Road,is the historian for Healeys and the oracle too !! am away from home at the moment

Oldfart wrote:Does anybody know of an earlier Big Healey that could be available for some film work. What is NOT wanted is an immaculate resto. Short notice.

Oldfart, tried to PM you your inbox is Chocca, mark Donaldson phone number Auckland 298 5732, cheers Roger D ..

Roger,
You mentioned Tamahere. I remember going there for the 1/4 mile sprints on the Bruntwood straight at Tamahere back in the 1960s.





(Ken Hyndman )

I found this wonderful description of the Bruntwood 1/4 mile written about 5 years ago by "Amco72".

" Anyone remember the standing and flying 1/4 mile sprints that the Hamilton Car Club held on the Bruntwood straight.....was on the back road between Hamilton and Cambridge. At that time, 1967, there were only about two farm houses down that stretch of road and most of the land either side was owned by a rough-as-guts farmer....Walter Byrne. I had a farm just a mile further on from the 'straight' in Mills road and used to attend this, what was an annual event. The last time I saw Logan Fow and the Ferrari GTO was there...wish I'd had a camera. Another competitor was Dennis Marwood in the Humber 80. Walter, the rough-as guts' farmer had a Daimler SP250 which he used to literally blow the cobwebs out of. Also a strange early front engined dragster powered by a WW2 Allison aircraft engine.....the type that powered the Mustang...the American fighter/bomber that is. I remember the 'officials' getting all us spectators well back from the road before they would let this thing go. Had a remote starter that plugged into the side. It certainly sounded the part but was disappointing as far as time was concerned, popping and banging it's way down the course. Logan could have given it 100 meters start and still beaten it in the GTO. There was also another very rough, and I mean ROUGH, old HWM sports car..maroon in colour with disc wheels that had been hugely extended. I recall this because not only had they been extended but also had pieces of steel strip spaced round the wheel like spokes to strengthen the widened piece. One of the strips had FALLEN OFF...shonky welding....and the owner was attempting to remove the strip opposite to try and balance the wheel.!!!!!!!!!!! Imagine that flying off when the car was doing a run. Anyway it was just a heap of junk, although probably hugely valuable today. I think Marwood had a better time. But everyone was there having a go with scrutinering in an adjacent paddock. One competitor with a Wolseley 6/99 was having a 'discussion' with the official who had just failed the Wolseley because of a worn tie-rod end. The said competitor was really getting very wound up and giving the tester a tune-up, telling him that the car would be OK because 'he was a mechanic and knew about these things'. Imagine that today.......'on yer bike sonny'. ".


Thank you Angus,
That description certainly brought back memories for me.
(Ken Hyndman )

Hi Roger, do you remember the Lawton Healey from NSCC?


There are more pics on the NSCC website but the links are all messed up now so only postage stamps
http://www.ncc.org.nz/photos%20pre%201980s.htm

Presently belongs to a club member and still has the holes drilled in the brake drums plus a few battle scars to the front bulkhead. I heard a story that McLaren put up some money for Jo to buy it.



Its the third from the left, BT768 on the left and perhaps you'll recognise some of the others

[edit] slightly bigger pic


Andy.