SAVED ANOTHER ONE!

Once you become deeply involved with a particular marque of automobile a certain transformation often takes place.  It’s easy to slip from being merely a “fan” or “enthusiast” for a marque into an outlook of “protector of the brand” with a mission to save them all.  So with that in mind I am happy to announced that Kent Lambert and I have jointly purchased another very interesting Healey that we’re going to “save.”

This one is a Right Hand Drive BN2, originally Carmine Red with black interior and hood.  I estimate the build date to be late October or possibly early November 1955.  Of course we will order the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust certificate with all the original data on the car to confirm these things.

We have purchased it from the estate of a gentleman who recently passed away and who bought the car in the early 1960s in England, this explaining why it is RHD.  It appears to have the Le Mans Kit installed.  The correct Le Mans carburetors and manifolds are present, as is the correct distributor.  There’s also a cold air box.  Interestingly we have the registration application form that the previous owner filled out in 1963, and he listed the model as “100 LEM” – LEM presumably short for Le Mans.

I’ll have more reports on this very interesting BN2 as time goes on, but for now here’s a redacted pic of the body number plate and Car No. plate on the car’s firewall, witness to another step on the path to saving them all.