- Thanks Milan, nice !!
All quiet on the AH front, and I am on very limited access [ mobile data astick] so no photos to add for a few days, make that two weeks all up.
Cheers
Roger
Back in the Bay [ of Plenty ], no new photos of Healeys, but did borrow this from a Facebook page
The Morley Brothers in 1965 in the Works Rally 3000
A rather large " Austin BMC " sign .. should be on the side of a building.
Perhaps it was put there when Leyland were affecting their merge?
Ray looks better like this - Still needs a wall though to attach to !!Originally Posted by Ray Bell
But you've now got the wheelie bin hanging in space...
And the house next door on its side.
Pete Dicks, whom I met at Snowmass [ at Aspen ] Colorado at the " 30th Anniversary of the Austin Healey "meeting in late July 1982 was digging through his archives / collection / stuff .. and found this.
I just thought I was just putting information together about AH Sprites.
This from " Thoroughbred and Classic Car " Magazine - probably the first of the " Classic Car " magazines to start.
The June 1980 Issue.
The cover
part of the article ;
The Car was owned by Tony Van De Water at the time, he still had it in 1989 and it was raced by him at the Ardmore Reunion meeting in January 1989 and he attended the AHCCNZ Rally at Easter the same year.
Tony moved to Renwick and I believe still runs BASIS the spare parts company there.
He has spent time at the Airforce base in the area when working as a RNZAF photographer.
I also understand he still has the car.
Many earlier cars have now been uncovered including AN5 501 the first production Sprite, but this car could still be the earliest in New Zealand.
Using a Number Plate on another car - a short story from the early 1950's - thanks to Paul O'Neill for this gem.
DMH - always the Gentleman ..
About MWD 360 ..
A framed " picture " well a letter and a cutting from a newspaper - there were very observant people back then too!!.
The letter - dated 6th November 1952 - not long after the London Motor Show where a " Healey 100 " became the " Austin Healey 100 "
The article - a cutting from a newspaper, details not stated.
The car they are referring to.
Photo from the Motor Show ; " HEALEY - HUNDRED " on the front of the car.
Photo prior to Leonard Lord from " Austin " making the agreement with the " Donald Healey Motor Company ".
A prototype on Steel Wheels from 1952. Plate could be MWD 341 - hard to determine. Has a " Healey 100 " badge on the shroud.
Must check on how many " Prototypes " there were, probably a couple.
Must try to find the Mille Miglia car - a Healey, not an Austin Healey.
From the Auckland Car Club Bulletin of September 1979.
Milan, thanks for that, gives me a bit more of the Dunster - Cammick car, didn't realise Bob and Gary Reed had owned / driven the car.From the Auckland Car Club Bulletin of September 1979.
Remember Gary from my time in the Austin Healey Club 1975 - 1996.
As we know Ross still has the car and in recent years has had a bit of fettling and now sports triple SU's compared to Twins it had in 1979.
Helped Ross with getting some of his parts through Customs back in the early 1980's when he was still overseas and shipped back a gearbox and I think the Triple carbs.
Car is less original with the centrshift gearbox, triple carbs and the angled radiator and rack and pinion steering but that is as Donald Healey would say " improving the car ".
An extract from New Zealand Memories magazine - the November 2020 issue.
Had my Triumph TR4A for the Tuesday Carless Day, so it could compete in Motorsport on the weekend, and an Austin A35 with a Sunday sticke , to drive on Tuesdays with Sprite twin carbs as the Mark One Sprite was in pieces.
The [ ex ] wife had the other Sprite a Mark 3 for her daily driver except for on another week day - can't remember what day, Oh for an Exempt sticker.
The stickers ;
A bit of a mix here with photos from early AHCCNZ Rallys in 1973 and 1975 - [ 1975 at Rotorua ]
1973 Mark Donaldson and the late Bernie Huynen examine Ross Cammick [ BMC BOY ] BN7 a 1959 model which has featured on here recently with Milan Fistonic post from the Auckland Car Club Bulletion in 1979.
This was a the First " National " Rally by the Club.
[ Photo from the AH Clubs own website - probably by Ross Cammick ]
1975 and Peter Nelligan in his BJ8 on the Gymkhana course at the Rotorua " National " Rally. Photographer I think was Ross Cammick.
[ from the AH Clubs own website ]
Moving to the USA - Geoff Healey standing beside Jerry Liudahl [ from Oregon ] 100 at Snowmass in 1982 at the 30th Anniversary of the Austin Healey gathering where around 1000 AH enthusiasts attended including 11 from New Zealand. [Jerry Liudahl photo ]
Another Oregon car Rex Urbans Sprite Racer, which was also at Snowmass and Medford in 1982 and has featured on this thread before
[ this is a recent photo from Rex Urban's own archives. ]
T - Shirt worn by the AH Club of Oregon attendees at the 1984 " National " Rally at Napier -around a dozen American Austin Healey people came to NZ for the Rally,mainly from Oregon - the " On the Road Again 1984 " line is as some had come to New Zealand in 1980, and they came back again in 1988 too !
The T shirt is still in the hands, and on the clothes-line, of Bryan and Brenda Harris. - Thanks to Bryan for the photo.
A Healey cartoon by Brian Caldersmith in Australia who draws other cartoons in the style of " Brockbank " the well known English Motoring cartoonist from the 1950's and 1960's.
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