{"id":347,"date":"2020-05-23T20:54:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T03:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/?p=347"},"modified":"2020-05-23T21:08:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:08:50","slug":"johnny-i-hardly-knew-ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/2020\/05\/23\/johnny-i-hardly-knew-ye\/","title":{"rendered":"JOHNNY, I HARDLY KNEW YE"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, I’m not referring to the Irish anti-war ballad of the 1700s<\/a>.<\/h2>\n

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.”<\/h2>\n

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.<\/h2>\n

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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.\u00a0 Haven’t heard of that?\u00a0 I suppose that’s not surprising.\u00a0 After all, how many of those cars still have their original fan belt?\u00a0 Well, I know of one:<\/h2>\n

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This is in the RHD BN2 that I’ve written about several times here.\u00a0 The originality of the car is just amazing, and that’s no … well, you fill in the blank.<\/h2>\n

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