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

[Roger Dowding]

Roger, EC 4802 was the Mk1 Sprite i restored which eventually went to Japan.The first owner was a Leslie Grant Bradley ,car registered here on 24 th October 1968.Your name features on page 3 of the rego papers i still have.You bought it from a somebody in Taupaki.Passed through Ken Smith and Chequered Flag car sales.We bought it in 1987 and restored it over 3 years,it is in the photo of the row of Healeys.

Ross has kindly sent me the Registrations papers [ originals and marked " cancelled " ], for the Sprite EC4802, chassis # AN5L 7311 under our ownership [ in my ex-wifes name actually - in the LH Drivers seat in the picture ] from 28 July 1978 to 11 November 1980, when sold to Craig Fisher, Max Fisher's son. Ross bought it 11 March 1987.
Thanks for the papers Ross and the picture you sent me taken according to the back in 1990.

This " EC4802 "


which had this


became this " 59BUG I "


A great job Ross,

[45DCOE]

Came across this in the weekend. Looks more or less complete

[Roger Dowding]

Came across this in the weekend. Looks more or less complete

Would be worth having, 4A judging by the side lights and chrome trim on the front guard, with the Targa / Surrey type roof [ the word Targa not used for them back then ], on Strombergs, mine a '67 had SU's. Damn I miss my TR4A - sold to help buy a house as at the time was in rebuilt condition and worth more then the Healey I also had the '53 100.. torn between the two marques ..

[khyndart in CA]

Who ever gets this Triumph don't forget to check this site.

http://www.mossmotors.com/Browse/Com...&PlateTypeID=1

Just remember it is for LHD cars.


(Ken Hyndman )

[Roger Dowding]

Who ever gets this Triumph don't forget to check this site.

http://www.mossmotors.com/Browse/Com...&PlateTypeID=1

Just remember it is for LHD cars.


(Ken Hyndman )

Is that " where everyone gets a bargain and a money back guarantee ", sorry Ken that is the " W[h]arehouse "..

[khyndart in CA]

Roger,
It is to use so you can get an idea of the parts prices here and you can say "I have a mate in the states who will ship it for half the price " as a bargaining tool.
So you put the money in my NZ account first and then perhaps one day I will get around to sending it to you.
Does that sound like a fair deal ?

(Ken )

[Roger Dowding]

Roger,
It is to use so you can get an idea of the parts prices here and you can say "I have a mate in the states who will ship it for half the price " as a bargaining tool.
So you put the money in my NZ account first and then perhaps one day I will get around to sending it to you.
Does that sound like a fair deal ?

(Ken )

Love it, now to try and buy the TR, will take a bit of explaining with the Ministress of Finance, though, that could also take a while.. cheers

[Roger Dowding]

These photos, some of which have appeared on other threads belong here.
They are from AHCCNZ events in the late 1970's and February 1981,

Mark Donaldson's pictures of me driving my Uncle Eddie Dowding's LHD Rover 3500 at a gymkhana on Bruce Belton's farm, near Waiuku, what was Franklin County, South Auckland. February 1981


very spirited but casual driving, arm on window ledge, probably to hold me in place. same event.


Ken H, not quite as sideways as the TR4 got ..

three Ross Cammick photos of other Healey events;
a mid winter run, which was at the 1981 National Rally in Rotorua includes Ross's car HL3000 and others. pic appears elsewhere in this thread with another of the same stop ..



a Gymkhana event which may have been at the Bruce Belton farm. I am unsure, but remember it was near the water in the Waiuku - Glenbrook area,

BSA Healey and Sunbeam, a mixed lot at AHCCNZ events, as many Healey owners had cars that were not mobile, two of the guys in the photo actually jointly owned a Big Healey at the time that was more or less a chassis with some parts. BSA owned by Lyle Chambers [ sitting on Bill Povey's Healey beside Bill's wife Kathy ] and the Sunbeam owned by Richard Leaper [ peering into the Healey ] Bill also looking into his Healey ( passenger side ), Judy Leaper sitting on the Sunbeam.


The BSA being driven by owner Lyle, passenger not known [ not remembered ].

[Roger Dowding]

A couple of Sprite Brochures, front covers ; courtesy Andreas Lindenberg who runs a Sprite forum on Facebook..





Wheels are unusual Centrelock Splines but 8 spokes not wires or Slotted Steels as original..

[Roger Dowding]

Brochure Cover for the Mark 111, Sprite 1098 cc engined and on wires as I owned in 1974-76 and the second one in 1979 - 80 ish, was on steel wheels ..



source Andreas Lindenberg from his Facebook Sprite forum.. It is OK as he has some of my pictures too !!.

[Roger Dowding]

another brochure or advert, from Davy Devries from Sprites and Midgets Facebook page.



look better driven like this ..



or this



photos by Dennis Green, 1975 and second in 1974, at NSCC events [ posted before ].

[nigel watts]

[Roger Dowding]

Nigel, thanks for those, B & W images are always great, cheers

[khyndart in CA]

Roger,
Why is it that in LHD cars they understeer with you at the wheel.

But in RHD cars you have the rear end hanging out ?




BTW your TR 4A pic may be in the Moss Magazine next month. (You owe me !)


(Ken Hyndman )

[Roger Dowding]

Roger,
Why is it that in LHD cars they understeer with you at the wheel.

But in RHD cars you have the rear end hanging out ?




BTW your TR 4A pic may be in the Moss Magazine next month. (You owe me !)


(Ken Hyndman )

Ken H, dunno about oversteer / understeer thing, just a heavy right foot .should drive more sedately like this - borrowed car again.

The Moss Mag, will be great to see, and yes I do owe you



and to prove I did drive in a straight line, not pictures but result cards from Thunderpark Drag Strip in 1984, in another borrowed car Ross Osborne's 100/6, not quick

[Roger Dowding]

Gone a way back in time for these, the first National Rally I attended [ in a Triumph .. oops, had sold the Sprite just before; EASTER 1976
Unsure at this stage who owned most of the cars, will update later when I get information from Mark Donaldson [ notes on the photos may be wrong ]







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For those from new Plymouth thinking where was it held, here is the answer !! we stayed here and had the Concours on the Saturday morning.

[Roger Dowding]

In the AHCCNZ there are two well known Healeys that we re-engined quite early in their " lives ", the Valiant Healey owned for many years by Bernie Huynen, pictured here at Napier in 1984; have had a drive in this car, wasn't very successful at it though.



and at Masterton in 1989, on a Hillclimb



Another well known car is Reg Whittaker's 100/8, a 100 that was repowered in the early 70's - [ with a V8 Buick / Oldsmobile type around 215 ci or 3500 cc I believe first ], has had several different V8's in it over the years, here it is in 1976 at New Plymouth. never driven it but have had a few rides around Waiuku in it with R O W known as Reg of Waiuku .. Reg was a School teacher and lives his life in Waiuku, he was instrumental in getting permission from the locals for the AHCCNZ Otaua Hillclimb on Maioro Rd, Reg lived in Bothwell Park Road, which was close by



Both cars have spent most of the time with the repower in place ..

the 100/8 is at the right in this scene at the Devon Motor Lodge

[Roger Dowding]

Some random items from that trip in 1982 with BMC BOY and others;

Went to the Jaguar Owners Club of Oregon " JOCO " - The 6th All British Field Meet & Jaguar Concours
11 September 1982 at Portland Oregon.
had a sticker about British Engineering .. posted previously

here are two more ;




obviously all the makes can co-exist and at one time were the same organisation - under the BL banner

Here is a TR4 ( mine ) a Jaguar, some Healeys and even a Hillman Hunter wagon [ how he got there unsure - must have been a Healey members BJ9 which is a non-Healey in Club terms ]. at Rotorua Rally in 1980.

[Kevin Hirst]

In the AHCCNZ there are two well known Healeys that we re-engined quite early in their " lives ", the Valiant Healey owned for many years by Bernie Huynen, pictured here at Napier in 1984; have had a drive in this car, wasn't very successful at it though.



and at Masterton in 1989, on a Hillclimb



Another well known car is Reg Whittaker's 100/8, a 100 that was repowered in the early 70's - [ with a V8 Buick / Oldsmobile type around 215 ci or 3500 cc I believe first ], has had several different V8's in it over the years, here it is in 1976 at New Plymouth. never driven it but have had a few rides around Waiuku in it with R O W known as Reg of Waiuku .. Reg was a School teacher and lives his life in Waiuku, he was instrumental in getting permission from the locals for the AHCCNZ Otaua Hillclimb on Maioro Rd, Reg lived in Bothwell Park Road, which was clo


Both cars have spent most of the time with the repower in place ..

the 100/8 is at the right in this scene at the Devon Motor Lodge

That look's nice, GT6 fastback fitted to Healy

[Roger Dowding]

Time sequence is all out, as scanned another set today and started in the wrong envelope, was supposed to be 1980, but here we go with 1987, also at Rotorua, which was the venue of quite a number of the Annual Rally's.

Chris White's 100 M [ replica ], a car often seen at Healey meetings and in classic racing.
here it is sans Roll Bar and all the safety stuff, screen up.


Easter 1987, 17 - 20 April .. at Rotorua ;
The group on a run probably on the Saturday afternoon.


Nelligan Cammick Osborne and White Healey's, [ Cammick is BMC BOY ].


at the Gymkhana, Sunday usually, think the same this year.


watching and standing by the cars, the new White caps with the AHCCNZ logo on a few mens heads, incl Mark Donaldson the clubs founder on the right.


a 3000 and Chris White's 100m with screen down, a great look but in many ways a dangerous option.