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Magazines and Austin Healey's..
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I'm sure that one will be there Roger. I have just about all up until about May 2014. There are 6.5 x 5 ream paper boxes.
Thanks, ERC,
Should not be a problem - so when we can [ as in allowed to travel ] get to Auckland, will be in touch.
Cheers
and Ray Bell, Re " Put those in the boot of a Healey and it'd drag its tail something terrible! " - I once [ around 1987 ] went to collect a load of bricks in my late 1970's Minivan - a 998 cc one from the President of AHCCNZ, Mark Donaldson .. the drive home was interesting as the steering was amazingly light, probably should have pumped the rear tyres up to over 40 psi, like you did for speed events ..
The van survived - it was a great workhorse - had the Dominion Motors wagon conversion - a folding back seat and sliding side windows. It lived the with the AH 100 and the MGB GT a " BMC menage a trois " with a foreign interloper as the daily driver.
Here in real life
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Here in a diorama I am working on while I can't get to work on the MX5 or pick up ERC's magazines and sort out the 6 huge boxes from seaqnmac Sean that I collected over a year ago .. first was inertia now covid -19 is the excuse !!.
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Sebring 1962 - Small Healey's
A sequence of photos from Jonathon Whitehouse - Bird posted on the Sebring Sprite Facebook pages.
" Sebring 1962. The Healey 'works', alloy bodied, Mk.II Sprites of Stirling Moss, Steve McQueen, Innes Ireland and Pedro Rodriguez line up before the start.
The Le Mans type start sequence follows, with Moss opening up a sizeable lead by the end of the first lap. ".
Photographer now known - Jonathan Whitehouse-Bird purchased them form the great American Photographer Dave Friedman who was a prolific Photog in the late 1950's - 1960's onwards.
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Moss in the lead
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Have a few more photos of the cars and the surviving one Race #22 of Pedro Rodriguez - some from the event others are of the car today.
Not Concours but in good condition with the Patina of its life visible - will be for another post
Lots more photos have come to light on these Alloy Bodied Mark 11 Sprites at Sebring in 1962,with Moss, McQueen Ireland and Rodriguez.
Some more form the Dave Friedman collection of Jonathan Whitehouse-Bird, and some others from Douglas Morton - who was there - will add to the story for all of us Spriteologists ..
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A95 - the Austin Healey Saloon - well they used them as BMC support vehicles ..
An Austin Healey Saloon - well this had the same motor as the 100/6 [ 100 SIX ] at 2639 cc.
... and as I told the owner of the car Kevin Hirst, a few of us Sprite Guys in the AH Club back in the mid 1970's nearly bought a wagon to use as a tow car for the Sprites ..needed a trailer too !! .. the story was that although we had good ideas we had no spare money - so it never happened, even though we knew a guy selling an A95 wagon -
PS there was a nice one here when this photo was taken by ERC the wagon in the background - spoke to the owner Ron I think was his name a member of the Flying A Club..
Converted the photo to Monochrome to be in period..
Thanks ERC for the photo and Kevin and Jayne Hirst for the car being at Caffeine and Classics - last Sunday.
My own photos to come.
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A photo -posted elsewhere of an A95 at Bathurst - with a rather modified 2.6 motor .. have the details on it too !
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another well used A95 that actually had the Ruddspeed Austin Healey 3 litre motor - as run by the McLaughlin Brothers.
The motor went back into the Ruddspeed, after a Austin 4 Litre motor was removed.
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Sebring 1962 - Small Healey's - the surviving car
More photos from Jonathan Whitehouse-Bird
- one of the 1962 Alloy bodied Sebring Sprites. car is in good condition, not concours though - a driver
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One of the original cars under construction at The Cape .. photo from J Whitehouse-Bird archives.
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#22 is the Pedro Rodriguez car [ must check that out ] It is 9253 WD ..
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Sebring 1962 - Small Healey's some more photo's
Some more from the 1962 Sebring 3 hour Race.
with Moss #15 , McQueen #16 , Ireland #17 and Pedro Rodriguez #22.
Rodriguez chasing an Abarth #4
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Innes Ireland
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both photos Jonathan Whitehouse-Bird archives - by Dave Freidman
3 more shots of Rodriguez #22, chasing an Abarth - photos Doug Morton
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Have a few more to come too !! - some in colour.
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Caffeine and Classics Smales Farm Auckland.. and AH and a couple of Flying A's
Photos downloaded and resized - only one Austin Healey - Allan Horner, an AHCCNZ member who also has a Sprite with Toyota Twincam power that he runs in the Classic Touring Track series - The Sprite wouldn't start so the 3000 came.
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The Flying A's - Kevin Hirst A95 Saloon and Ron ? with an A95 Wagaon - a good pair.
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Will put others cars on the MX5 thread - the MX's that were there !!