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Author: andy foley
Total 5 posts - Started on 2011-11-23
Last Post Time: 2013-05-19 20:20:02
Posted on: The Austin-Healey Experience
I has been a year and a half. I have made progress, but not where I wanted to be. All the major body work is done. Well all the welding and replacing anyway, have a little more filler work to do to finish. I have painted the under neath, and the trunk and engine compartments. I painted the interior, aand dash. I have reinsalkled the dash and some of the stuff under the hood. As soon as the clutch kit gets here this week, I will satrt putting the drive line back in. I don't think I'll get to drive this year, But am determined to get done this winter.
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Author: Tim Summers
Total 4 posts - Started on 2012-08-05
Last Post Time: 2013-05-03 19:48:06
Posted on: The Austin-Healey Experience
Blue Hawaii 1961 with Joan Blackman.
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Author: Bill L
Total 4 posts - Started on 2012-12-28
Last Post Time: 2013-02-07 21:07:15
Posted on: The Austin-Healey Experience
Ive had a couple inquiries regarding my rotisserie. This is how I did it. There were no plans,just fabricated as I went along.
I took two of Harbor Freight's cheapest engine stands, replaced the cross member with a longer section of the same size square tubing. I then attached swiveling casters on the ends. I cut the upright of both stands in two and bolted in a 14" section of box tubing that I had in the scrap pile. Initially I was going to use angle iron, but the rectangular tubing allowed me to easily change the angle of the top so it was parallel to the ground. This allows the car to turn without binding. I welded a section of square tubing in to attach the forward ends of the two stands together.
The front mount is attached to two pieces of angle bolted to the radiator supports. I welded a piece of small square tubing across the top of the two angles to keep it square.
The rear mount was made with 1" square tubing welded to plates bolted where the springs were mounted. The top of this mount was welded to another piece of steel bolted across the two license tag holes. I will try to get a better picture of the rear mount.
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Author: Richard gartman
Total 1 posts - Started on 2013-01-29
Last Post Time: 2013-01-29 11:55:48
Posted on: The Austin-Healey Experience
In restoration mode bug eye chassis, 948 and 1275 motors: 3 rib cage transmissions: several Rear axel housings, axels, differentials, radiators, steering racks, Several cars worth of instruments, trim, and piece parts
Entire garage as a package including shelves for an AH bug eye enthusiast – Must sell for daughters college tuition – best offer. Located in Plano Texas - wrgartman@gmail.com
Inventory:
Bug eye chassis - disassembled
Aluminum Rims
Custom 948 motor with DeLong cam
Stock 1275 motor
Rear axel housing
4:22 differential
Smooth case transmission
Rib cage transmissions
Wire wheel rear axels
Wire wheel front spindles
Wind shields
Transmission gears
Front disc brakes
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Author: Claude Prosnier
Total 1 posts - Started on 2013-01-11
Last Post Time: 2013-01-11 09:21:13
Posted on: The Austin-Healey Experience
Renovating a 1962 BT7.Previous owner partially converted ,read butchered it to become a 2 seaters ,thus the BN1/2 rear shroud that came with it.
Wanted thusly, to purchase a BT7 rear shroud or exchange for my BN1 shroud in very good condition. Would pay differential value.
Also looking for the rear seats complete unit,
STATUS: very bad rusted chassis exposed to weather since 1970, given away in May 2011 for a father and son project.
Since then, chassis has been sand blasted, epoxy primed and fully repaired with major steel reenforcement.
Next is chassis painting, 8 circuits wiring harness, and power train install by May ??
Will update accordingly . Claude
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Author: Dean Meyer
Total 1 posts - Started on 2013-01-02
Last Post Time: 2013-01-02 19:46:49
Posted on: The Austin-Healey Experience
You may be interested in following along with my latest project...
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Author: sal sax
Total 1 posts - Started on 2012-12-10
Last Post Time: 2012-12-10 21:36:57
Posted on: The Austin-Healey Experience
It was really not a hard decision to make.
I am now realizing that parting with this old friend would'nt be right.
After entertaining lowball offers and waiting around for would be buyers who never show... I've decided to keep my old Healey and do a restoration on her.
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Author: Pete Groh
Total 2 posts - Started on 2012-12-05
Last Post Time: 2012-12-05 07:37:09
Posted on: The Austin-Healey Experience
The vendor had this set of side curtain for sale. The window is all one piece. The rubber on one of the curtains would need repair. Not sure how the car owner would be able to get into the car. This was a great buy. I ask him what the price was on both items, but he wanted me to make him a offer. Just let say that I did make the purchase and gave him a extra $10.00.
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Author: David Young
Total 1 posts - Started on 2012-01-19
Last Post Time: 2012-01-19 11:53:53
Posted on: The Austin-Healey Experience
Bought this in 1966 when I was still in school and enjoyed it through '69. Needed body work. Did most of it myself, separated the fenders, prep for new paint etc. Good times, great memories, best drive. Planning retirement now and looking for another one.
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Author: Mark Miller
Total 2 posts - Started on 2012-01-13
Last Post Time: 2012-01-13 20:15:27
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When my older brother bought the Healey in 1970 I knew that the previous owner had been killed in action in Vietnam that previous year.
After I took possesion of the car I had asked the DMV for past records looking to see how many previous owners there had been. In those days you recieved photocopies of every piece of paper that was in the car file with the State. None of the names or addresses were "blacked out" either. I learned that there had been three other owners after the car was transferred to my home state from New Jersey.
Many years later, in 2009, after surviving a bout with cancer and treatments, my wife and I travelled to Washington, D.C., and did the tourist thing. One day we walked past the White House to the Washington, the WW II, the Vietnam, the Lincoln, the Korean, the Jefferson and the Holocaust Memorials. At the Vietnam Memorial we took the time to get rubbings off of the Wall of four names that we knew: two for my old friend and boss, one for my wife and one for the late owner of my Healey. I figured I'd put it in the back window of the hardtop some day.
About ten months later my wife volunteered me to drive a car to a local show for an older gentleman that wanted both his Jag XKE and Corvette in the show. It was just a fun day for her company's networking organization, but I couldn't say no. We got to know the man and really liked him and his stories.
The next day she had me up on a roof installing an attic fan for an old friend of hers...
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Author: Dan Sullivan
Total 1 posts - Started on 2011-12-25
Last Post Time: 2011-12-25 04:19:44
Posted on: The Austin-Healey Experience
I have priors
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Author: Dave Turney
Total 1 posts - Started on 2011-10-01
Last Post Time: 2011-10-01 16:59:23
Posted on: The Austin-Healey Experience
On 9.20.2011 I entered into an agreement to purchase a 1961 Bugeye Sprite. Today I met the transporter and collected the car and documentation here in Ohio.
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Author: Richard Rooks
Total 1 posts - Started on 2011-08-09
Last Post Time: 2011-08-09 08:34:19
Posted on: The Austin-Healey Experience
This auto is a 1961 MK1 Austin Healey Sprite (Bugeye Sprite) converted by Speedwell Performance Conversions Ltd in London England. The Speedwell Company was stared by John Sprinzel, George Hulbert and Len Adams. All three were involved with club racing in post war UK and demand for their modified engines help them start the company.
New technologies developed during the War in Glass Reinforced Plastics (GRP), Plexiglas, Aluminum and aerodynamics etc, meant that there were new talents to be exploited. One such talent was Frank Costin, who had been at De Havilland aircraft during the war. Frank’s aerodynamic design
knowledge had already designed the Lotus Elite for Colin Chapman amongst others. Speedwell asked Frank to design a car around the MK 1 Sprite chassis and the car shown here is one of these cars, the Speedwell Sprite GT. These cars proved a great success on the racetrack and in Speed record attempts. The Streamliner, built solely for speed breaking, was timed at 132.2 mph with a 1,000cc engine. A Speedwell GT did 110.9 mph at the same event, driven by Graham Hill who had now joined the company.
Mr David Hurn commissioned this car from Speedwell in 1961, he was an up and coming photographer and still works for the Magnum photo agency to this day. As you can see, this car looks nothing like a Bugeye and now has a aluminum coupe top, GRP Monza bonnet with wire wheels, making it a tribute to Frank Costin’s design genius. David Hurn had a FIAT 1500 en...
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