This section will follow the rebuild of my latest purchase, a 1954 Nash Healey LeMans Coupe. I found this car on the "Bring A Trailer" web site and decided it would make for an interesting project. The Car is body number 13576, one of the first 10 of the 90 cars built in 1954. Thanks to Judy Brookes of the Nash Healey registry for identifying the car, the registry has 136 cars registered of the total production of approximately 500 cars.
I purchased the car from Van Tele Auto in Taylor Michigan, Alex the owner and Will have been very helpful in fully describing the condition of the car and taking great care to pack all of the parts that had been dismantled from it inside the car for shipping. It's always good to deal with real car people who love their cars!
As Purchased the car is missing it's front grill, engine, gearbox and the left curved section of the rear windscreen, otherwise the car is relatively complete the obviously missing items in the images like bumpers etc are supplied loose with the car.
Help in chasing up the missing parts would be appreciated. I intend making this car a daily driver, so may not re install the original drive train. We see how it pans out.
Front view the missing grill could be hard to find!
Right side, I love the lines of the 54 model, which has the larger curved rear screen
Interior
Engine bay
Engine bay
View in boot
The car being loaded in Michigan, dwarfed by the transporter. I was very impressed that the transport was secure and the car was well protected for the trip. Freight is in the hands of Ameroz and the car is now safely in L.A. getting ready for the container. I needed to ship a new windscreen with the car, which was part of the purchase, no problem to this company, so I had one sent to their depot to be added to the car.
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