Author Topic: Solved - NEH 5361: Healarossa - Austin-Healey 100/4 with 265 cu.in. Chey V8  (Read 650 times)

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Re: NEH 5361
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2019, 08:15:32 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 5361
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2019, 08:07:58 AM »
American?

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Re: NEH 5361
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2019, 09:52:42 AM »
American?

Partly, but not the basis.
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Re: NEH 5361
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2019, 11:50:01 AM »
Hey, I considered buying this car a few years ago!

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Re: NEH 5361
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2019, 01:18:54 PM »
Anglo - American?

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Re: NEH 5361
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2019, 01:48:16 PM »
Italian base and American body ?

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Re: NEH 5361
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2019, 05:58:47 PM »
Anglo - American?


Yes!

Italian base and American body ?

Nothing Italian about it but body was modified in the US.
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Re: NEH 5361
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2019, 10:05:31 AM »
Did it start life as an Austin-Healey?
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Re: NEH 5361
« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2019, 11:39:21 AM »
Did it start life as an Austin-Healey?

Yes!
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Re: NEH 5361
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2019, 06:16:37 AM »
I belief this is on a basis of Healy 100/4, but with a Chevy V8 265ci.
Aluminum body looks of the Ferrari’s 250TR. It seems to be called the HealaRossa.

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Re: NEH 5361
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2019, 08:31:48 AM »
That's about the long and the short of it, yes.
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Re: Solved - NEH 5361: Healarossa - Austin-Healey 100/4 with 265 cu.in. Chey V8
« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2019, 08:52:19 AM »
Healatosa or HealaRossa?
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Re: Solved - NEH 5361: Healarossa - Austin-Healey 100/4 with 265 cu.in. Chey V8
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2019, 09:28:16 AM »
Healatosa or HealaRossa?

Oops - Freudian slip!
Corrected.
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