{"id":377,"date":"2020-06-08T20:23:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T03:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/?p=377"},"modified":"2020-06-08T20:23:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T03:23:56","slug":"weird-thermostat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/2020\/06\/08\/weird-thermostat\/","title":{"rendered":"WEIRD THERMOSTAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Another oddity of the RHD BN2 project.\u00a0 A weird thermostat of all things.\u00a0 At least I&#8217;d never seen one like it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s marked made in USA so it&#8217;s not the original, and it likely dates from the 1960s when the car was imported to the USA.<\/h2>\n<h2>This is the top:<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-378\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thermo-1-IMG_4077-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thermo-1-IMG_4077-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thermo-1-IMG_4077-1024x858.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thermo-1-IMG_4077-768x643.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thermo-1-IMG_4077.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Side view reveals the operating mechanism, kinda:<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-379\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thermo-2-IMG_4078-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thermo-2-IMG_4078-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thermo-2-IMG_4078-1024x841.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thermo-2-IMG_4078-768x630.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thermo-2-IMG_4078.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>And the underside reveals that it&#8217;s rated at 180 degrees:<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-380\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thermo-3-IMG_4083-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thermo-3-IMG_4083-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thermo-3-IMG_4083-1024x788.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thermo-3-IMG_4083-768x591.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thermo-3-IMG_4083.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>It&#8217;s tempting to start a rumor that it&#8217;s the ultra-rare Le Mans thermostat, installed by Donald Healey myself, at the Bonneville Salt Flats, and it later went on to be in the 1958 Paris show car, and was briefly owned and raced by Stirling Moss.<\/h2>\n<h2>No, I can&#8217;t prove it.\u00a0 Can you disprove it?<\/h2>\n<h2>It could be for sale, but not for cheap.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another oddity of the RHD BN2 project.\u00a0 A weird thermostat of all things.\u00a0 At least I&#8217;d never seen one like it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s marked made in USA so it&#8217;s not the original, and it likely dates from the 1960s when the &hellip; 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