A Modified Healey

[Cottontop]

Other than the fender flares, do you notice anything very unusual about this 325HP SBF Modified Healey?

NOT YOU Pat.

If you don't like the looks of it now, you should have seen the pictures of what he started with. The frame, fenders, and doors were rusted nearly to bits and the body actually had a tree growing where the transmission used to be.

Few of us would have bothered bringing it back to the road.

Tim

 

[Keoke]

Yeah!!--He stole sombodys wind screen.

 

[Healey_Z]

doors?

 

[andrea]

The Wind Screen seems same of the AH Hard Top rear screen
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/wkt1Oj9qrGjmDRh2ObCoRA?feat=directlink
andrea

 

[bighealeysource]

Wild "Nasty Boy" ! Not my cup of tea with the styling changes but admire what appears to be a very quality job and the obvious hard work. I prefer the way Rick has done his "Nasty Boy" - stock in appearance until you open the hood.
Regards,
Mike

 

[Cottontop]

doors?

Yep! Doors = None. And the owner is in his 60's. A much better (and more nimble) man than I am.

The windscreen is a 1955 Corvette. This rebuild was done back in the day when they were also pleantiful. Not so today.

All in all, this was a very well built and well done car. If he had not rescued this Healey from the field it which he found it, we wouldn't be seeing it today.

Well done, John.

Tim

 

[Donny_L]

Hard core cooool!! I love it,side pipes and all

 

[Jim_Newman]

Well, here's another nicely modified Healey (I hope the image shows up).

According to the UK agency selling it...
This example was delivered new to the United States as a 1956 model Austin Healey BN4 100/6. Nothing of its earlier history is known, having been spotted a few years ago by the subsequent owner whilst travelling on the Amtrak train to LAX airport in California. It was parked next to a Triumph TR4 on the premises of an artist living in the Anaheim area of Orange County.
At some point, possibly in the mid-1960s, the Healey underwent a re-body in steel, with styling cues taken from the contemporary Chevrolet Corvette and Jaguar E-type models. One theory (which is yet to be substantiated) is that the car was a steel styling buck for the Cougar and Monza models of the Universal Plastics Company based in Belmont, California.
The Healey was prised from the owner, purchased, and transported over to the UK, and in the last year has undergone a “nut and bolt” rebuild by the famous and very well regarded Austin Healey racer and restorer John Chatham, using new or reconditioned parts throughout. These include a Healey 3000 Mk2 engine (balanced with an up-rated camshaft and six-branch manifold), rebuilt gearbox with overdrive, servo-assisted disk brakes, new wiring loom and lights, also an alternator and electric fan. The shell of the car was acid-dipped and Electrophoretic coated by Surface Processing Ltd. to ensure against future corrosion, and all cavities have been wax-filled. Finally it has been painted in the classic combination of grey metallic with an interior retrim in red leather, featuring genuine 100S seats, also new carpets and tonneau cover.
It has sincebeen sold.

 

[HealeyRick]

Wild "Nasty Boy" ! Not my cup of tea with the styling changes but admire what appears to be a very quality job and the obvious hard work. I prefer the way Rick has done his "Nasty Boy" - stock in appearance until you open the hood.
Regards,
Mike

Thanks for the compliment, Mike. When I was younger, I really liked the modified big-flaired look. For some reason, as I've got older, I tend to be attracted more by the unmodified body styles. It's so bad that I even like the styling of the slab-side Cobras more than the 427SCs.
Nevertheless, this is a nicely done Nasty and I'd be thrilled to take it for a drive.

 

[HealeyRick]

Well, here's another nicely modified Healey (I hope the image shows up).
It has since been sold.

Here's some more pics of this car on Bring A Trailer that involved a bunch of us trying to figure out exactly what it was: BAT Any idea what it finally sold for?