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

[ERC]

Just missed you! Alan Horner said you'd gone. Would have like to have caught up with BMC Boy - was he the bearded one on the outside of the 'big' corner, with a lens the size of a fence post?

[Roger Dowding]

Just missed you! Alan Horner said you'd gone. Would have like to have caught up with BMC Boy - was he the bearded one on the outside of the 'big' corner, with a lens the size of a fence post?

ERC, I saw that Healey as I was driving back, would have waved to the driver but who would be looking at an SX4 ??
BMC BOY is clean shaven, his mate Reg has a beard a bit like Allan Horner. Ross still looks like he did in the 1980's
this is him a few years ago..2012, in Ross's garage with Nell Holdstock-Donaldson, Ross bought the Cooper FJ off Nell many years ago and is restoring it ..


Pity we missed each other maybe next time at " Caffeine and Classics " end of November ??

[Roger Dowding]

A member of the Austin Healey car Club, Morris [ appropriate name ] Wright has purchased a 100 that was at one stage owned by Frank Karl with Reg # BQ538.
It has had previous and subsequent Registration Plates as listed here ;

Morris has written the following about the car, which i have a couple of pictures of ;

" The car is BN1 152950

My understanding of its history at this stage is that it was sold new in NZ (shipped via Australia) to Howey Oswald Williams from Putaruru.
I’ve done some sleuthing and found someone in Putaruru that remembers him who told me he was a bit of a reclusive batchelor and partner in a timber haulage company.
Howey Williams owned the car until John Percival purchased it and he and Frank Karl dragged it out of the barn.
Frank looked after the car for John as he had moved to Australia by this stage. (I think most people assume it was Frank’s car)
What is interesting is among the papers that came with the car is the attached newspaper clipping from the Auckland Star 1956.
What is interesting is the car came with all the mentioned items, 100M carbs and camshaft and factory hard top.
There can’t have been many cars here that would fit that description!
I can only assume it didn’t end up selling.
It certainly hasn’t had a hard life as the alloy shrouds are in unusually good condition with original paint on the inside where they were protected from being painted when the car was changed from blue to green.

The next owner was Dawn Telford and Phillip Neil, then the owner I purchased it from.

The Heritage Certificate was issued to a Mr John Milligan although I don’t know how he fits in, maybe he was only involved in obtaining the certificate.

The registration numbers it has been issued over the years are:

1954: 360-405
1957: 120-895
1961: 225-303
1969: BQ538
1985: ML4121

The photos of it with the plate KH3000 are a red herring!
These plates belong to Frank Karl’s car and both Mark and Frank have told me that they were fitted to the 100 as it wasn’t registered and by changing the plates were able to make it look legal for the AH rally! There are also photos of Frank’s car wearing the BQ538!

I’m hoping that either the BQ538 or ML4121 plates are hanging on a Healey enthusiast’s garage wall as I’d love to reunite them with the car! "
On the way to Napier the Annual Rally in 1984 - a puncture on the way sporting the Plates from Frank's 3000


At Napier the Gymkhana venue 1984


The Red Herring - Frank's 3000 with the other plates on !!


Any information and photos for the Car would be appreciated, please post here or PM me if you prefer.
The Car competed in the 1985 Porsche Club Perrier Le mans Races as evidenced by the scrutineering sticker still on the windscreen.

Morris has used the Roaring Season for information on another car an MG,but not recently.

Cheers
Roger D ..

[Roger Dowding]

Attachment 44472
In the Pits at Levin in the late 1960's

Just going back over these photos and EI 1819 the white BJ8 was owned at one time by Tim Jolley there is a photo posted by Jim Reece on the thread
The E series of Regos would be around late 1965 early 1966

[Roger Dowding]

Just going back over these photos and EI 1819 the white BJ8 was owned at one time by Tim Jolley there is a photo posted by Jim Reece on the thread
The E series of Regos would be around late 1965 early 1966

A couple of photos of the car - different colours ??





Photo by Swannie

[Milan Fistonic]

These are the Healey entries for the 1985 Porsche Club Le Mans Intermarque Relay Races.

[Roger Dowding]

Milan, brilliant, thank you, I know Morris will be pleased.

[Roger Dowding]

This T shirt is appropriate as "Oldfart " is thinking of selling his Buckler, in the UK.
As quite a few on this forum are OF's "retired /expired " seemed appropriate.
another explanation is - " a quiet day in the Bay of Plenty ". so time to waste !!



OK better find a Healey photo. small one and small in the photo, on a car trial South of Auckland in 1974 .. the car is still registered on Carjam, a 1965 model Mark 3 Sprite..

[Roger Dowding]

Found a few more from Napier, and the story of the Puketapu Tavern [ Hotel actually according to the name over the door ]..

Heading out from the Motor Camp at Havelock North,
Attachment 34585

This car was the third Sprite purchased in 1979 !!, sold by my ex-wife in 1983 to this young couple.
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Frank Karls other Healey complete with gunsight on the bonnet, being repaired again, puncture on the way down, and now this
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Wayne Brown in ID 9783 It ran 14 inch X 6 inch Hotwire Mags, sat rather low, even with 185 x 14's
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Puketapu Hotel
The visit was the second one as on Saturday we had arrived by Bus on the Saturday afternoon as part of a tour, the Americans liked it so much as did the publican, a few consumed and some takeaways for later. this was on the Monday when many headed home, a group of us stayed on to revisit.
Attachment 34589

Outside the Tavern 50% Americans / 50% Kiwi's counting the camera Guy
BMC BOY on the left, and the two in blue are rest of the four that went to the USA in 1982 and traveled in the VW Kombi for several months

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That now is the final pics from 1984 Rally

The Big Fella on the right in the last photo " Puketapu Hotel " had his 77th Birthday yesterday, Happy Birthday John Wilson ..

[nigel watts]

[Roger Dowding]

Thanks Nigel I only took one photo of the " Bug-eye "Sprite in a group, there was a Mark 2/3 there as well a Red one,photos still in the camera.
Off to Caffeine and Classics at Smales Farm tomorrow for a hour or so..in the "Scruffy " Neo Green [ read BRG ] Mazda MX5 ..

[ERC]

Clash with the (2) race meetings at Hampton Downs... Grrrr... Will have to skip Smales Farm - again. HRSCC/VCC meet on the short track and a bit of action on the National Track too. Wife is dancing at a comp at Mangere Bridge, so south scores over the North Shore this time.

[Roger Dowding]

Clash with the (2) race meetings at Hampton Downs... Grrrr... Will have to skip Smales Farm - again. HRSCC/VCC meet on the short track and a bit of action on the National Track too. Wife is dancing at a comp at Mangere Bridge, so south scores over the North Shore this time.

ERC, there was a Jaguar Drivers Concour South of the Bridge too !! Jim Reece another Healey guy went.
Didn't see any Healey's at Smales Farm,lots of other interesting cars though, quite a few MX5's.. photos to come, not sure where to post them as Not Healeys..

[Roger Dowding]

Thanks Nigel I only took one photo of the " Bug-eye "Sprite in a group, there was a Mark 2/3 there as well a Red one,photos still in the camera.
Off to Caffeine and Classics at Smales Farm tomorrow for a hour or so..in the "Scruffy " Neo Green [ read BRG ] Mazda MX5 ..

Nigel's Sprite photos.
This is the other Sprite at the " Greerton Vintage Fayre ", a Car Show and Vintage Retro market with a lot of people dressed in the time of their cars. a few good things for sale; One was the Euan Sargison Book on Vintage Racing in NZ a collection of his photos for $60.00 - didn't get it, maybe next time. If I am lucky !!

The Mark 2 Sprite 1962-64 .still has the sidescreens the wind ups came with the Mark 3 .. 1965 model



The Bug-eye in a group



Not a Healey but who knows what it is - didn't note the badge ..
Here beside a GT6 used to own one back in the mid 1970's



Found another picture of the mystery car, now know it is a Beattie Clubman



and another picture of the GT6,

[Ross Hollings]

Beattie

[Oldfart]

Or in another incarnation, Redline.

[Roger Dowding]

And the winner is Ross, with Rhys giving more information. Thanks Guys, .. now must find the other photo.

This is from Carjam ;
Year: 2001
Make: LVVTA
Model: BEATTIE
Colour: GREEN
Submodel: CLUBMAN
Body Style: Sports Car
VIN: 7A88E000701687334
Plate: AGG593
Engine No: 3S-150601
Chassis: BCRDL4
Vehicle Type: Passenger Car/Van
Seats: 2
CC rating: 2,000cc

[BMCBOY]

There is a Redline Roadsport 2011 for sale on TradeMe at present. Looks a nice example and well priced.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/spe...1471174847.htm

[Roger Dowding]

A close up of the models of Healeys that have competed at Le Mans - at the " Healey Museum ".
it includes Healey and Austin - Healey cars .. some are handmade.

a close up [ cropped shot ]


The original photo ;


I have a couple of models, the 1955 Lance Macklin Car and a 1961 Le Mans entrant race # 23 both by Spark, plus one of the Sprite Coupe's is an Exem model.you have to add the race numbers.

[Milan Fistonic]

An advert for the 1986 Otaua Hillclimb.