2017-11-08 21:46:19 | pauls writes:

Car now offered at:
www.panoramabay.co.uk/used-car/austin/healey/100-4-bn1-sports-convertible/for-sa ...

Sellers description:
Beautifully finished in red with black leather trim and black hood. The car is supplied with the British Heritage Certificate No. HT/2003/5732 informs us that this Austin Healey BN1 was an original home market right hand drive vehicle with the build date of 15th December 1954.The chassis number/engine/body all check out as correct from new. The car was purchased in 1980 from the original owner who had owned it for 34 years. It was at that time in a dilapidated state of barn find condition. In November 1988 a painstaking ground up/body off restoration was started and was completed in 1990 by the second owner to replicate the car he had successfully raced in 1953. Thus the car was finished in his Colorado Red racing colours with an aluminium body (except for the boot). There are black and white photographic images of the second owner who restored this car showing him racing at Olton Park and Silverstone in 1953 with his original race car Reg No. SFM830. During the restoration the mechanical parts were either overhauled or replaced. The car has covered a mere 6500 miles since the restoration was completed. The car is fitted with a laminated windscreen, heater, w/wheels, manual gears with overdrive, fog/spot lights, fold down windscreen, foldaway hood and union jack/GB badges etc.The history folder includes the original handbook, current V5 which informs us that there have been only 3 previous keepers since Dec 54 (from new) some 62 years, Owners Handbook, previous MoTs, various invoices, DVLA docs, a write up on this car, previous registration documents, RAC paperwork and an album showing 83 photographic images of the car as discovered in 1988 as a barn find up to full restoration. It is increasingly hard to find an original UK RHD Healey with such low ownership and still having the benefit of all numbers matching.

2021-12-17 11:56:53 | pauls writes:

Car was at auction 10/21

auctions.doreandrees.com/catalogue/lot/a36d9d1a0fec0ae603f4815d162c124d/ad74375b ...

Auction description:

2nd Oct 2021

1954 AUSTIN HEALEY 100/4 BN1

Registration Number: JVS 548

Chassis Number: BN1/222319

Recorded Mileage: 7,000 miles

UK delivered in RHD specification, 4 owners from new

Former property of 1950s racer Gordon Stratton

Older full restoration, reskinned in lightweight aluminium

Matching numbers engine and chassis

According to the British Heritage Certificate on file, chassis 222319 was supplied new to a Mr. Stan Davies of Inverness in December 1954, finished in Spruce Green with a Green hood and trim, and with the options of a heater, laminated screen and wire wheels.

The first owner kept his Healey for over 25 years before it was acquired in 1980 by Mr. Gordon Stratton for restoration. Gordon Stratton had successfully raced a 100/4 in the 1950s at SIlverstone and Oulton Park. Inspired by his former racing Healey, he commenced a painstaking ground up restoration of this car. During the restoration the Healey was reskinned in lightweight aluminium and finished in his preferred racing colour of Colorado Red, with the seats being retrimmed in Connolly leather. The major mechanical components were either overhauled or replaced, as detailed in the history file. 

The restoration was completed in around 1990 and since then the Healey has completed just over 7,000 miles. Under 1,000 miles ago in 2012 the Healey benefitted from various remedial works to the engine, brakes and suspension, at a cost of c. £1200.

The history file contains a detailed photographic record of the previous restoration, older records of ownership and restoration, owner’s handbook, current and older V5 registration documents, older MoT certificates and invoices for maintenance.

It is increasingly difficult to find an original early RHD Austin-Healey with such low ownership. This well presented example has an interesting history and is ready to be enjoyed once more.