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    NOJ393 SPL and AHS3610 both 100S and an ordinary 100.

    " Warren Country Club Chelmsford UK May 3rd 2013
    Marco Trevisan, Steve & Helen Pike, Dani Schlatter
    NOJ393 first public reappearance after restoration.
    photo complements Joe Jarick ESQ. "
    Comments by Steve Pike - who was involved with the restoration.

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    AHS3610 - another restoration - photo from Steve Pike.

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    Not a 100S just a photo of my 100 after some repainting - sitting the garage with a couple of very different Mates a T-Bucket [ Chev powered ] and our MGB GT - the T was owned by our son back in 1990/91, was a dog to drive, was built for drag racing so not a road friendly car .

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    Have uncovered some photo's I had forgotten about - so my own archives growing again.

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    Nash Healeys at the 1953 Le Mans race.

    Not just " Nash Healeys at the 1953 Le Mans race. " but 100's too
    1953 would be the first year for Austin Healey, but Donald Healey's team had been there well before that.

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    The Nash Healey's were considered a USA entry while the A-H 100's were from Great Britain.

    Leslie Johnson and H L Hadley came 11th in the Nash Healey Race #11
    The car also won a Biennial Cup having competed the race two years running
    The other Nash Healey only complete 3 hours. Veyron and G Cabantous

    Maurice Gatsonides and Johnny Locket came 12th in the Austin Healey #34
    A - H #33 was in 14th Place. driven by Marcel Bequart and Gordon Wilkins - better known as Motoring Writer

    a link to the results

    " https://www.racingsportscars.com/res...953-06-14.html "

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    Nash Healey's and Austin Healey's Le Mans 1953

    Quote Originally Posted by Roger Dowding View Post
    Not just " Nash Healeys at the 1953 Le Mans race. " but 100's too
    1953 would be the first year for Austin Healey, but Donald Healey's team had been there well before that.

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    The Nash Healey's were considered a USA entry while the A-H 100's were from Great Britain.

    Leslie Johnson and H L Hadley came 11th in the Nash Healey Race #11
    The car also won a Biennial Cup having competed the race two years running
    The other Nash Healey only complete 3 hours. Veyron and G Cabantous

    Maurice Gatsonides and Johnny Locket came 12th in the Austin Healey #34
    A - H #33 was in 14th Place. driven by Marcel Bequart and Gordon Wilkins - better known as Motoring Writer

    a link to the results

    " https://www.racingsportscars.com/res...953-06-14.html "
    A couple more photos of the cars from Le Mans 1953

    Thanks to Karsten Stelk Clas Askelar and Chris Dimmock

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    From The Autocar's report of the 1954 London Motor Show.

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    A report from The Autocar on the first six 100S cars to come off the production line.

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    Milan ; Thanks for the 100S information ..
    I used to buy " The Autocar " with my pocket money while at High School 1964 / 65. kept buying them once I started work for many years.
    A great Magazine back then.

    The 100S in the row of finished cars with a driver is AHS3501 - the first in the series - apart from the
    " Special Test Cars " is the Briggs Cunningham car - White with the Blue Stripe, Americas Racing colours and a trademark of Briggs cars over the years from 1950 onwards at Le Mans
    Last edited by Roger Dowding; 09-23-2023 at 03:42 AM. Reason: Notes added ###47

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    Nash Healey - the 1952 Indianapolis Pace Car

    Healey's raced at Le Mans - starting with the Silverstone, then Nash Healey's followed by the 100 -four and by 1955 the 100S to the 3000 in 1960 then some Specials Sprites and the XR cars.

    This is a Pace Car not a Race Car.
    Car has a New York State Registration Plate and it is believed the Race Meeting - first photo - could be Bridgehampton NY State.
    Photo from " Healey Museum " archives - their Facebook page
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    This the Second photo was for sale on EBay at USD 9.75 - it did not sell and was relisted ??

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    I'd reckon a Nash Healey would be a good thing to play with...

    Any details of the makeup of the suspension etc?

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    I had a bit of a look online and I'm not so interested any more...

    The front suspension is Healey's trailing arm (as on Silverstone etc), which doesn't sit well with me. The rear is okay, a coil spring version of the torque tube arrangement from a Nash with a Panhard bar. Healey made a special head for the engine in alloy, but the power wasn't magnificent.

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    Nash Healey - suspension and why they happened.

    Quote Originally Posted by Ray Bell View Post
    I had a bit of a look online and I'm not so interested any more...

    The front suspension is Healey's trailing arm (as on Silverstone etc), which doesn't sit well with me. The rear is okay, a coil spring version of the torque tube arrangement from a Nash with a Panhard bar. Healey made a special head for the engine in alloy, but the power wasn't magnificent.
    Ray, thanks for the comments - believe that the " Healey " front suspension was rather complicated and expensive, no wonder they used a more basic but good handling set up on the Healey 100, that became the Austin Healey 100 - was modified over time to use on the 100 Six and 3000 apart from better Brakes [ Disc ] on later cars nothing much changed.

    The suspension - edit from Wikipaedia.
    " The chassis was a widened and reinforced Healey Silverstone box-section ladder-type steel frame. Independent front suspension, also Healey Silverstone, was by coil springs, trailing link, and a sway bar. The rear suspension featured Nash's rear end and coil springs replaced the Silverstone’s leaf springs, while the beam axle was located by Panhard rod. "

    Classic and Sportcar article states " With rumours that his supply of Riley engines was about to dry up, Healey had been on his way to Detroit to shop for the new overhead-valve Cadillac V8; when it wasn’t forthcoming (Cadillac couldn’t spare any), Mason’s offer of the rugged 3.8-litre Nash ‘Dual Jetfire’ straight-six began to look like a good deal.

    Special high-compression, 125bhp versions of this seven-bearing, overhead-valve unit – complete with three-speed overdrive gearboxes – were shipped to England, six at a time, in giant packing cases. All the Donald Healey Motor Co had to do was fit twin SU carburettors, which helped to get a lower bonnet line.

    It was then installed into a suitably modified Healey Silverstone box-section chassis, with trademark coil spring and cast-alloy trailing-link front suspension and a new coil-sprung rear end. Nash supplied the propshaft, torque tube, rear axle, wheels and ‘Weather eye’ heater, plus various items of instrumentation and trim. "

    A 1950 Model for sale - doesn't seem right as production was 1951 - 54. so maybe they mean a 1950's model.

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    You need some of this bloke's work on this thread!


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    The trailing arm was a very rare alloy, pretty much unobtanium now. As told to me by the Healey family it was "pistominium"

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    Probably the same as the pistons as portrayed in the beginning of The World's Fastest Indian...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roger Dowding View Post
    Ray, thanks for the comments - believe that the " Healey " front suspension was rather complicated and expensive, no wonder they used a more basic but good handling set up on the Healey 100, that became the Austin Healey 100 - was modified over time to use on the 100 Six and 3000 apart from better Brakes [ Disc ] on later cars nothing much changed.

    The suspension - edit from Wikipaedia.
    " The chassis was a widened and reinforced Healey Silverstone box-section ladder-type steel frame. Independent front suspension, also Healey Silverstone, was by coil springs, trailing link, and a sway bar. The rear suspension featured Nash's rear end and coil springs replaced the Silverstone’s leaf springs, while the beam axle was located by Panhard rod. "

    Classic and Sportcar article states " With rumours that his supply of Riley engines was about to dry up, Healey had been on his way to Detroit to shop for the new overhead-valve Cadillac V8; when it wasn’t forthcoming (Cadillac couldn’t spare any), Mason’s offer of the rugged 3.8-litre Nash ‘Dual Jetfire’ straight-six began to look like a good deal.

    Special high-compression, 125bhp versions of this seven-bearing, overhead-valve unit – complete with three-speed overdrive gearboxes – were shipped to England, six at a time, in giant packing cases. All the Donald Healey Motor Co had to do was fit twin SU carburettors, which helped to get a lower bonnet line.

    It was then installed into a suitably modified Healey Silverstone box-section chassis, with trademark coil spring and cast-alloy trailing-link front suspension and a new coil-sprung rear end. Nash supplied the propshaft, torque tube, rear axle, wheels and ‘Weather eye’ heater, plus various items of instrumentation and trim. "

    A 1950 Model for sale - doesn't seem right as production was 1951 - 54. so maybe they mean a 1950's model.

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    At last, a Healey that is pleasing to my eyes....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ray Bell View Post
    Probably the same as the pistons as portrayed in the beginning of The World's Fastest Indian...
    Merlin pistons are a tad hard to find for raw material these days.

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    Ford and Chevrolet aren't...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ray Bell View Post
    You need some of this bloke's work on this thread!

    Love it Ray, have been reading a bit about the Rally and the trip across Australia. A huge drive for " old-er " cars

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    I was referring purely to Rod's work with the cartoons...

    There are other Healey cartoons he's done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ray Bell View Post
    I was referring purely to Rod's work with the cartoons...

    " There are other Healey cartoons he's done."
    Please post them on here Ray..

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    Unfortunately many of them have disappeared due to web-hosts changes etc. And others have great 'Photobucket' shadows over them.

    But I have asked Rod if he can post them here. He is a Healey owner.

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