The Jalopy Journal
Yep, and mine is already there! http://forum.britishv8.org/read.php?13,8264. Needs a good updating, though, and I'll do it once I put everything...
My small block Ford in a Healey is what I call a "new-old-school build". I did the swap about 10 years ago, but it was a shade-tree deal effort...
My favorite Cunningham car (along with his Austin-Healey 100S) has to be the Cunnigham C4R-K, possibly the meanest looking car to ever grace a...
Very cool, bet it flies. BTW, you have the chrome flashes on the front fenders on backwards, just flip them side to side. Don't want to anger...
Can we hear a little more about that Healey? Stock driveline or no? Cool looking car.
Sports cars just have to have a stick, especially with a V8 in them: [img] [img] [img]
Bermuda Bells are quite useful for attracting the ladies, too. [MEDIA]
What's that saying, "The first 90 percent of the build takes 10 percent of the time and the last 10 percent takes the other 90 percent of the...
This one would get you across the Tobin Bridge into Boston in 1966 for 15 cents instead of the regular .25. It's been on my Healey since then....
Roy did these on my Healey V8. He's a real pro, been doing it for years. I highly recommend him. Sent you his contact info in a pm [IMG]
The SBF in my Austin-Healey 3000 is activated by the car's original push button. Its little brother, a Bugeye Sprite, on the other hand is...
Small block Ford, 345 crank horsepower with a T5Z transmission Car and Driver famously swapped a Pontiac Sprint Six into an E-Type, eventually...
In what must be the weirdest Route 66 episode, Tod and Buzz somehow end up in Gloucester, MA which everyone knows is miles away from Route 66 and...
According to John Morton's book,"Inside Shelby American: Wrenching and Racing with Carroll Shelby in the 1960s" the Healey played a part in the...
One of the funniest articles I remember from Car and Driver or Road & Track in the '60s was a story about two high school kids who did a shade...
The website that hosts this picture was down for awhile but is now back up. If you want the background, go here:...
Before his Old Yeller days, Max Balchowsky and his wife Ina were busy dropping V8s into Austin-Healeys: [IMG] One of the first Healey...
TD v. Vette at Islip: [MEDIA]
In the gas station where I worked it was speedi-dry (kitty litter) spread out over the floor. Scrub it with the wood side of the shop broom, flip...
About 1957. Here's a link to the story (although the site sometimes has issues loading)...
The "Corvace" an AC Ace with a 'vette motor. This car was completed prior to Shelby putting a Ford in an AC and is believed to be one of his...
AKA = "The Turd" https://www.hemmings.com/blog/article/instant-folklore/
My Dad had one in a new '67 LeMans with the Sprint option and a 'glide. I wanted him to get a GTO, but you know, "gas mileage". As was said, it...
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Saw this 283 powered Healey special at the Monterey Rolex Reunion. Car was converted in the '50s. [img] [img] [img]
Nice shots outside Iolani Palace, home of the last reigning Hawaiian monarchs and Steve McGarrett's office in the original Hawaii Five-0.
Great pictures, thanks! I really liked that MGA coupe turned into a fastback.
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As an aside, when I had the car painted originally I had some original paint from the inside of the trunk lid scanned with a spectrophotometer...
After having the hood louvered on my Healey to let some of the V8 heat out, I had it painted using the original paint code in Deltron DBC that was...
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