Just noticed you and BMC BOY are twins, same wheels on the cars !![/QUOTE]
Not quite Roger - mine are splined "knock-ons".
I have taken the luggage rack off for the first time since the car was restored in 1978. Just for a change - looks a bit less cluttered and i've never really used it much as a BN7 has a reasonable boot.
Not quite Roger - mine are splined "knock-ons".Originally Posted by BMCBOY
I have taken the luggage rack off for the first time since the car was restored in 1978. Just for a change - looks a bit less cluttered and i've never really used it much as a BN7 has a reasonable boot.
Ross, Knew yours were splined Knock on's,look great, and yes it does look better without the luggage rack, missed getting there again, Dammit
Ross, Knew yours were splined Knock on's, look great, and yes it does look better without the luggage rack, missed getting there again, Dammit[/QUOTE]Not quite Roger - mine are splined "knock-ons".
I have taken the luggage rack off for the first time since the car was restored in 1978. Just for a change - looks a bit less cluttered and i've never really used it much as a BN7 has a reasonable boot.
This car was a protoype for a six cylinder Austin Powered Healey and is currently being restored by Patrick and Caroline Quinn in Sydney Australia.
It is a 100 chassis which at this stage I don 't think had been lengthened - will clarify that and edit later. checked it had not BN3/4 was however a longer chassis -see comments below.
The photos were posted by TRS on the Website today but I thought they belong here - I had already asked permission from Patrick Quinn to use them.
There is also an article on the car which Patrick sent to me some time ago.I will try to attach the link.
" For the first time in almost seven years the BN3 has moved under its own power. Not far mind you. Just enough to move it out of the garage so the radiator and engine could be flushed through. Then I drove it back in again. "
quote - Patrick Quinn
http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/PQBN3.html
and a comment from the link ;
" Avid readers of the Austin-Healey publications that abound these days would have realised that there were also a BN3 and BN5. "
further comment by Patrick
" There were also at least two BN3s built by the DHMC as experimental prototype vehicles to test the new six cylinder in the Austin-Healey chassis. One of these, BN3/4 which still exists in terrible condition was a very different car being nine inches longer then standard, special chassis that sweeps up into the engine bay and quarter elliptics at the rear. The other vehicle is the BN3/1 and is the car I bought over a quarter of a century ago. "
They were however not production cars, unlike BN1 BN2, 100's BN4 and BN6 100/6 and BN7 3000
a couple of photos from the article ;
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Here you are Roger. No need to steal these two. Just for you.
Pre Targa 2005 at Papakura.
Down at By'Gone Autos, November 2005. Farnie Meyer and Mal Clark in the background - who should ideally have been working hard on my Magnette!
Last edited by ERC; 03-08-2018 at 10:21 PM.
Here you are Roger. No need to steal these two. Just for you.
Thanks Ray .. do you know whose car " HEALIT " is - a fairly modified BJ8 ??
A Freeway and Sprite, at the park, Pumicestone Passage a small car show
and another BMC product hiding amongst others
and a Rover BMC / BL products ..should have put the P5B, P6B, motor in a Healey !!
That is a P5 with the 6 cylinder 3 litre Rover motor
Err, doesn't sound right to me, Rover Healy, also not part of BL when produced.A Freeway and Sprite, at the park, Pumicestone Passage a small car show
and another BMC product hiding amongst others
and a Rover BMC / BL products ..should have put the P5B, P6B, motor in a Healey !!
That is a P5 with the 6 cylinder 3 litre Rover motor
Big Healey BJ8 3000 production stopped in 1968, and they looked at a Rolls Royce powered A-H, a widened BJ8 with the Four Litre Roller motor, my thoughts were it would have been a great motor in a Healey.
BMC as such were not very nice to Donald Healey at the end of the relationship - Rover got the 215 ci V8 from General Motors, an unwanted motor from a small Buick that was no longer used ..went on the be a great motor in BL. Rover/ LandRover, Morgan, as a 3.5 litre, and with BMC Australia in the P76 as a 4.4 litre.
Remember in the day those R.R. motor's where a bit of a disaster in the B.L. Van den plas, people used to run & hide when they saw one coming.
More suited to an Army Tank than a car !! Kevin
maybe B.B.A, or british boat anchor, terrible overheating & corrosion problem's I.I.R.C. once you got all the head nut's off it took a week to actually get the head off. Sweet motor when going properly though.
Kevin, we in the AH club of NZ had an acronym the word ' Healey ' - " Heavily Engineered Almost Likeable English Yacht " .. and of course The Donald Healey built boats as well as cars.
When I lived on Bribie Island QLD, I worked at QT Mutual Bank, which recently became RACQ Bank
This is what is in the foyer of the Head Office - posted by a work colleague from that time Steve Barnett.
Think I had seen the car before at an AHOCQ event .. here in 2016, but may have been a "Champagne coloured 3000 not a 100SIX
The colour is unusual a " Champagne " - there is at least one 3000 in the colour in NZ, Nigel Watts posted a couple of photos recently
Steve tells me they feature a different car each week !! what a good Corporate process.
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Check this out Roger
https://www.facebook.com/festivalofs...4553888221602/
Nigel, thanks, what a great run .. in the wet !!, cheers
At least it was only wet at that stage! Later on Saturday turned to snow and a fair bit. You have to admire the car control!
Off to the Bay of Plenty and briefly at Te Poi in the Waikato, so may not be much posting going on from me for a while.
Yes the new house is almost ready.
Must remember to watch my speed as last trip cost me an $80 fine near Patetonga.
have a safe Easter
Drive safely not like this ;
So the usual photo, they will be out in force !!
John Wilson, a Longtime member of the Austin Healey Club of Oregon, passed away a few days ago in Oregon, a friend and great Guy with a long association through the " World of the Austin Healey's " with the Austin Healey Car Club of New Zealand.
John and his late wife Shirley visited New Zealand in 1984 and 1988, with AH people from various West Coast USA Clubs, in return there were several many visits by AHCCNZ people to Oregon.
I first met John and Shirley at the " 30th Anniversary of the Austin Healey " at Snowmass [ at Aspen ], Colorado in July 1982, when the intrepid " Four Kiwi's in a Kombi " BMC BOY, and myself, with Bryan and Brenda Harris, travelled from Los Angeles, to San Diego, into Mexico - Ensenada and the Coast, we then headed North up the Coast Road, all the way to Vancouver Canada.
We saw John and Shirley again, in Eugene Oregon, at their home and at the Oregon Club's Rally at Medford Oregon.
John and Shirley visited us in Auckland and on the AHCCNZ Rally at Napier in 1984 and stayed with us in 1988, when they came with other Oregon Club members to attend Wings over Wanaka and the South Island Healey meeting.
Later in 1988 visited the West Coast of the USA again,California, Oregon and Washington State, staying with the Wilson's in Eugene Oregon, going to the Historic races at Portland, and borrowing from John one of his Austin Healey's a barn find [ Arizona Car ] 3000 which we used for 10 days or so covering over 2000 miles.
Had been back in touch with John in recent years, and was sad to receive news from Jerry Luidahl, a mutual friend and fellow Healey and Car enthusiast.
A couple photos that relate to John ; RIP the Big Guy
At the Puketapu Hotel, with BMC BOY on the left and John Wilson on the right, next to John the other 2 of the " Four Kiwi's " and next to them Shirley Wilson,
The line up, Ross, my wife Pauline, Wayne Brown from Oregon, Rene from California, Sylvia from Oregon, Shirley Wilson, Bryan, Brenda and Big John, the Healey 100 was mine.
John and his son Robert - their business in Marcola, Oregon " Healey Lane Restorations "
John Wilson's Healey that we borrowed with Wayne Brown's car in front - Note the NZ number plate, had an Oregon Plate on the back and NO we never got stopped !!
John Wilson's A - H 3000 and Healey trailer at Medford in August 1982, the car and trailer went to Snowmass in the July
My Healey at Herne Bay with the Wyoming AH 56 plate
The Number Plate given to me by Big John Wilson, still have it thanks again Mate !!
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Just re-read my intro on TRS back in 2013??
" This boy recently, as in nearly 4 years ago, moved across the ditch from NZ to Sydney and now Bellara [ where the ** is that ] on an Island North of Brisbane, near the Sunshine Coast, came from a family of car nuts, my Uncle who at 93 is still around and in good health was a founding member of Northern Sports Car Club and it's first Club Captain, my father was the Auditor for many years in the 1950's. I joined NSCC in 1967 and started off in trials then moved into grass sprints, sealed sprint [ mainly at Pukekohe ] and Hillclimbs from 1970 to about 1980, have done the [ TACCOC ] correction was Jaguar Drivers Club Petit Le Mans in 1983 for the Austin Healey Car Club NZ and was organiser for their Hillclimb at Otaua, near Pukekohe for several years 1987 - 1990 , competed in 1983, hung up the Max Cheshire Helmet [ which I still have MANZ spec 1971 ] in 1984, but prior to that in 1979/80 did the entire Bardahl Hillclimb series in a 1967 Triumph TR4A, since then mainly a spectator but did do a Track Day at Pukekohe in a Mazda MX5 in 2004, which my son still drives [ 1991 model BRG with the Limited Edition bits ]. now living in Bellara I am 40 minutes from Lakeside Raceway, what a predicament, when to go or when to go to the beach, no contest, the cars win. "
Well a bit has happened since then,
Now back in NZ since April 2017, so no Lakeside anymore, to compensate have been to Caffeine and Classics several times at Smales Farm, Greerton Vintage Fayre [Car Show part ], Chelsea Walsh HillClimb at the Sugarworks in Chelsea Auckland and to Hampton Downs as a guest of John B .. Thanks again John Bennoch.
Now relocated to Omokoroa, Bay of Plenty although in Auckland for this week, then back to the Bay.
Still have the MX5, it is staying in Auckland for the moment, needs some TLC.
No substitute for this car though ;
or this
The one in the middle sitting sedately at " Caffeine and Classics "
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