2020-08-13 13:13:45 | pauls writes:

Car to be at auction 8/20
angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic/sat-22nd-sun-23rd-august/1954-austin-healey-1004 ...

Auction description:
1954 Austin Healey 100/4 BN1
Lot Number:
Estimate: £30,000 - 35,000

V5 Present
MoT Aug 2021
Chassis number: BN1147402

2,660cc. Finished in Reno red with red leather. An original RHD home market example, equipped with 4‑speed, overdrive, BN2 gearbox and weather equipment (hood and side screens). UK re‑registered in 1982 and showing two registered owners since, the first retaining it for thirty‑four years. The Heritage certificate confirms the original factory specification including that it was supplied in Healey blue with blue trim and hood. The registration number 4219 PO remains with the car. The vendor advises that it runs and drives without fault. The mileage is recorded at 78,341.

2024-07-17 07:00:25 | pauls writes:

Car returns to auction 7/24

carsonline.bonhams.com/en/listings/austin-healey/100-bn1/6292f9bf-68e5-4456-adab ...

Auction description:

1954 Austin Healey 100 BN1

BMIHT Certificate on file

A good driver

Delivered as a home market car

BN1147402

80000 miles

2660 cc

manual

Red

Red/Black

Right-hand drive

Vehicle location Bonhams|Cars Online HQ, United Kingdom

Originally home-market delivered in Healey Ice Blue colour.

In very good running order this is a sound and well loved car with a nice patina but could do with some minor cosmetic attention.  

This is a very early, mostly aluminium-bodied example and left the factory wearing Healey ‘Ice Blue’ livery and specified for the UK market.

The car’s history is somewhat anecdotal and vague in places (not least because of paperwork destroyed in a house fire) but from what we and the vendor can discern it spent some time overseas and then returned to the UK in, perhaps, 1971, after which it was with the same owner until 2016, having been first registered here in 1982.

Today, it is showing 79,195 miles on the odometer. In 2006 the figure was 73,595 miles. Clearly then, the car has been very sparingly used in the intervening years. 

From what our experience of driving it has told us, it appears to be in very decent mechanical order and there are numerous bills, invoices and receipts attesting to parts ordered, work done and upgrades installed from 2020 onwards.

The current vendor, who is well-known to us, is a serial collector of rare and interesting classic cars - and a man whose current mission to rationalise his collection is the reason for its sale today.

Exterior

The bodywork is pretty straight and true, and there are no dimples, dinks or dents of any note anywhere that we can see. 

The shut-lines and panel gaps are decent for the most part, although the doors are somewhat shy of being perfectly flush with the surrounding bodywork. 

The hood is currently detached from its mechanism but, aside from some yellowing to the rear screen, it appears to be intact, free of any rips or tears and ready to be reacquainted with the rest of the car.

The clear screens on the side panels (currently in the boot) are yellowed, cracked and some of the plastic has fallen away.

The black Everflex tonneau cover is in fine fettle, as you might expect of an item that was ordered new in 2020.

The wire wheels look to be in good order and the non-matching tyres seem to have plenty of life left in them.

It’s fair to say that the red paintwork has probably seen better days, and there are numerous largely cosmetic issues in sundry places.

There is bubbling to be found to some degree on pretty much every panel, with the worst of it around the wheel arches, in the sills, and at the base of the doors.

There is also bubbling on the front valance, on the offside ‘A’ pillar, on the o/s/f wing, on the bodywork forward of the bonnet, on the boot lid, and atop both rear wings.

There are areas of cracked and split paint on the boot lid and between the wing and the bonnet on the nearside.

The chrome work has held up pretty well and the lights, lenses, badging and other exterior fixtures and fittings are decent.