{"id":520,"date":"2020-09-25T09:50:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T16:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/?p=520"},"modified":"2020-09-25T09:50:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T16:50:44","slug":"a-thing-of-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/2020\/09\/25\/a-thing-of-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"A THING OF BEAUTY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>There are several milestones in a car&#8217;s complete restoration, and the best ones are usually on the &#8220;downhill side&#8221; &#8211; the reassembly where things start to look like a car again and the light at the end of the tunnel begins to shine.\u00a0 The freshly painted drivetrain, ready for re-installation, must certainly be one of those milestones, and we passed that point a few days ago.<\/h2>\n<h2>The Austin A90 engine has seldom been singled out as one of the more exciting engines, either cosmetically or performance-wise, but to a true Healey enthusiast, it has a unique inner and outer beauty.\u00a0 \u00a0Therefore, presented here for your viewing pleasure, is the drivetrain of the RHD BN2 Le Mans project that continues to make good progress.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-521\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4545e1-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4545e1-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4545e1-1024x814.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4545e1-768x611.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4545e1-1536x1221.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4545e1.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-523\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4546e1-1-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4546e1-1-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4546e1-1-1024x707.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4546e1-1-768x530.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4546e1-1-1536x1061.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4546e1-1.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>1955 was a very good year and in some ways, now 65 years later, it looks even better.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several milestones in a car&#8217;s complete restoration, and the best ones are usually on the &#8220;downhill side&#8221; &#8211; the reassembly where things start to look like a car again and the light at the end of the tunnel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/2020\/09\/25\/a-thing-of-beauty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}