The Roaring Season

Found this in an old box of bits and pieces. Must have come with an English magazine as it's for a finance company called Security Pacific based in Reading.

Saw a few Healeys at the Ellerslie Concours show today. I'll load em up when they're processed.

Roger Dowding wrote:This car deserves an Article on its own; have to gather more information and download my own photos - It had a History board at Hampton Downs which I photo'd ..
A couple of photo's ; one old 1950/60's one new 2018

Not sure where this is, others may know - photo provided by John Manhire - not his though, I don't think !!
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the #44 Morgan was one of the Bennett Boys from Dunedin, according to Graham Woods

Leadfoot Festival last weekend - John B photo
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They did not get the engine cover correct on the rebuild.

Kwaussie wrote:They did not get the engine cover correct on the rebuild.

True, and they put the grille back in too !! Kwaussie, still it is the original chassis, I believe..must download my photo's !!

I would really like to know just how much of the original car survives in this machine........It suffered a very horrific smash from which something MAY have survived........and while we are at it, shouldnt it be the Corvette Healey rather than the Healey Corvette.......as in Austin Healey, Nash Healey etc.......the bonnet badge did survive in its original form as the Healey Corvette......but I am surprised that that is what they called it rather than the other way round.........

AMCO72 wrote:I would really like to know just how much of the original car survives in this machine........It suffered a very horrific smash from which something MAY have survived........and while we are at it, shouldnt it be the Corvette Healey rather than the Healey Corvette.......as in Austin Healey, Nash Healey etc.......the bonnet badge did survive in its original form as the Healey Corvette......but I am surprised that that is what they called it rather than the other way round.........

AMCO72, It is [is it ] really called Austin - Healey Corvette ?? as unlike Austin Healey and Nash Healey, where the agreement with the Donald Healey Motor Company and in the first case the Austin Motor Company - later BMC with the later cars , was agreed on.
The first "100 "appeared at the 1952 London Motor Show as a Healey 100,
[powered by an Austin engine - before the agreement was made to sell the car, slightly modified as an Austin - Healey "
This is a modified Austin Healey, although having said that The Valiant powered Austin -Healey, that Bernie Huynen built and ran for many years was known as the Valiant Healey.

About the smash, I have not read the article in NZ Classic Driver magazine several years ago, which may have that detail.
Update April 2022 -
Managed to get the back issue on the Healey Corvette by Allan Dick - in NZ Classic Driver issue #63 from Nov-Dec 2015.
Have also acquired [as in "borrowed " ] a couple of photos of the Healey Corvette, when it was just an Austin Healey 100 .. New post coming soon.
Healey Corvette features in Posts #409 this one, 429, 476, 521, 547, 709 and 805.

No Ellerslie - again. Down in Napier with friends. Whilst they were cycling, we visited Ian Hope's massive collection of British cars. No Healey's...

AMCO raises an interesting point. Up to the constructor of a special I suppose, but my preference would always be the make (even if modified) first, then engine. As far as filing goes, it would have to be Marcos Volvo, Marcos Ford, Marcos Triumph etc., and not the other way around.

Roger Dowding wrote:This car deserves an Article on its own; have to gather more information and download my own photos - It had a History board at Hampton Downs which I photo'd ..
A couple of photo's ; one old 1950/60's one new 2018

Not sure where this is, others may know - photo provided by John Manhire - not his though, I don't think !!
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the #44 Morgan was one of the Bennett Boys from Dunedin, according to Graham Woods

Leadfoot Festival last weekend - John B photo
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Details of the Car from Carjam.

Year: 1954
Make: AUSTIN
Model: HEALEY
Colour: Black
Submodel: CORVETTE
Body Style: Convertible
VIN: 7A80T070703152563
Plate: DS3698
Engine No: 3789935
Chassis: BN1-152563
Vehicle Type: Passenger Car/Van
Seats: 2
CC rating: 4,640cc
Fuel Type: Petrol

Plates History

Plate Effective Date
DS3698 20-Apr-2004
BZA813 07-Apr-2004

NZ First Registration: 15-Dec-1954

Presumably the plate DS3698 was issued to the car back in the 1960's [ 1966 -67 ].
Is stated to be a personalised plate as in done in the older style, similar to the first of the permanent plates issued from mid 1964 onwards

Nigel, Thanks for the photo's from Ellerslie appreciate it, as didn't go.

Got this picture years ago and not sure who from
Mar 2024 - have found it was on a cover of the NZ Healey Club Magazine Healey Torque years ago, but my copy is a print.
- the other cartoons were picked from Facebook.

Borrowed these, mainly from UK and USA

Some Sprites Gymkhana's in the 1980's John Bowman pictures




something more historic from Klas Arkelar


Big Healey at a Gymkhana John Bowman picture


Car yards in the USA

From the UK a couple of Special Sprites



and from the 1956 Ardmore Grand Prix programme the Sports car entries - thanks Graham Woods - another gem !
Mentions Jim Ganley, father of Howden and Dennis, quite a few Healey's in the race

HL 3000 ..
Ray put this on this thread


He put this on his own thread so " Stole " it..

ERC wrote:Oh drat. If I'd known who owned it I would have had a chat, as I followed him in!!!

We will all be at the same place at the same time one day .. we all did Chelsea last year and have done C and C several times on the same day at different times, Life is complicated !!



Damn, think the car needs some work..

Winton Bristow sketch of John Seabrook's Healey 100 at Ardmore 1954 - 1956 ish .
- In 1956 Seabrooks, with Ross Jensen driving had a 100S usually race #18.

In front XK120
Allard Palm Beach, Triumph TR, Austin Healey 100, Aston Martin another XK 120 - jim boyd Buckler MK6 tucked in behind the Allard - Kelvin Brown photo archive [also posted on the Bucklers thread ]
The 50 mile Race January 1956

Put these on the Buckler thread as there were pictures of the Hammond Buckler from Hunterville.
There were Austin - Healey's racing - Thanks to Graham Woods for the details

Dunedin. The Feature Race, no Healey's but the Buckler and others against some more Specialised cars like the TecMec [ Maserati ] and the Stanton Corvette. There would have been a Sports car race,must try to find an entry list


Waimate Race for NZ Specials and Racing Cars; E D Candy in the Healey Corvette, and E Timms in a 100 [4 cylinder


Teretonga ; I Johnstone in a 100 2660 cc so a four and P K McFarlane in a Healey described 2600 cc so may have been a 100/6 which were 2639cc


Wigram - The Lady Wigram Trophy meeting ; the Sports car field had Johnstone,. McFarlane and Timms
Must check back as have heard of the McFarlane Healey before

Some details from the display board that was with the car at Hampton Downs and elsewhere - still have to download the photos

1954 model originally purchased by Geoff Mardon who went on the drive the Stanton Corvette in the late 1960's
Sold to Arthur Kennard in February 1955
Raced by Arthur as a modified AH 100 4 in 1955 and 1956
Corvette Motor and transmission fitted in 1957, along with Aston Martin Disc Brakes
Sold in 1959 by Arthur Kennard - more to follow

presume the Healey Corvette run by E D Candy at Waimate in 1962 is the same car.

A Rod Diggen painting of the Morley brothers [ twins ] Big Healey on the 1962 Coupe's des Alpes ..
Jerry Luidahl, a mate of mine from Oregon USA, posted it on an Austin Healey Facebook page.



and not a Austin - Healey seen here just a Healey and a few BMC cousins in the 1995 Manfield Meeting poster - posted by Steve Whitren, whose MG Magnette is pictured, a similar car to ERC's current project seen at " Caffeine and Classics " in January.
"C and C "is on this weekend, the Fifth Anniversary

Noticed the "Healey " is an Elliott and would be Gordon Vogtherr's [ spelling ?? ] car from the Hawkes Bay ..
Gordon competed at this the 1994 Telecom Motorfest


1995 Manfield Meeting poster - posted by Steve Whitren,