JOHNNY, I HARDLY KNEW YE

No, I’m not referring to the Irish anti-war ballad of the 1700s.

And no, I’m not referring to John Bull, a real person who died on March 12, 1628 and is credited with the composition of an early form of the British National anthem, “God Save the King.”

And lastly, no I’m not even referring to John Bull, the imaginary figure created in 1712 by a Scottish cartoonist as a personification of Great Britain as a nation, but is more commonly accepted as a personification of the nation of England.

No, the John Bull I’m referring to is the name of the British company that made the fan belts originally used in the Healey 100.  Haven’t heard of that?  I suppose that’s not surprising.  After all, how many of those cars still have their original fan belt?  Well, I know of one:

This is in the RHD BN2 that I’ve written about several times here.  The originality of the car is just amazing, and that’s no … well, you fill in the blank.