It took a considerable amount of effort and time to get our Austin Healey 3000 completely stripped, so we are taking every step to make this a thorough chassis restoration.
So, we loaded it up on a very impressive rotisserie and send it to Todd at Fox Kustoms for media blasting who did a stellar job which was aided by a balanced setup.
With bare metal on our hands time was of the essence, it had to get protected immediately which meant a marathon epoxy prime which took three hours of continuous spray. This is probably the most intense chassis to prime/paint of all the British cars.
Today, sitting in a dark green hue of Valspar 999DTM, the Healey was finally towed by Sean at Sharky’s off to Stickler’s Speed Shop where inner, intermediate and outer sills will be completely replaced as well as a plethora of other work.
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1967 Austin Healey 3000 BJ8 Media Blast Chassis
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1967 Austin Healey 3000 BJ8 Media Blast Chassis
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1967 Austin Healey 3000 BJ8 Media Blast Chassis
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1967 Austin Healey 3000 BJ8 Media Blast Chassis
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1967 Austin Healey 3000 BJ8 Media Blast Chassis
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1967 Austin Healey 3000 BJ8 Media Blast Chassis
Today was the 12th annual Jaguars On The Island 2015 hosted by the Jaguar Car Club of Victoria at the Windsor Park, Oak Bay, Victoria, BC.
This JCNA sanctioned event claims to be the largest of it’s kind in North America!
This year many fantastic cars showed up including a 1934 S.S.1 driven by Woody & Kyoko Wood was driven up from Marina, Washington. This car will be available for sale and you can reach the Wood’s at cwood1234@hotmail.com.
E-Types were popular at this year’s event. They made up the bulk of show with 25 similar cars lined up. Towards the end of our gallery we have the immaculately prepared roadster from Brain Evers which was getting judged just as we arrived.
Today was the annual Father’s Day picnic at Beacon Hill Park organized by Jim Walters of Bristol Motors fame.
There was a special occasion to honor Bill Small and two of his three Triumph TR3s were on display. He was a regular around the shop and will be sorely missed.
Several great new cars were on display including Nick Stepushyn’s Princess 3-Litre Mark II, Dennis from Nanaimo drove down his 1962 E-Type which he has owned for 40 years. Jason and Tina from Jetstream also brought out their 1959 Bugeye which we helped resurrect from deep Cowichan and this highly original car now has a new bright red interior.
Other recently completed cars included Chris Yarrow’s magnificent Austin Healey 100M and Steve Clark Racing’s Aston Martin DBMKIII which has finally been completed by Jetstream Custom Auto and Styles Auto Upholstery.
A couple weekends ago we opened the doors to the RROC and ended up at the Highland House Farm and Roost for lunch.
It was a great excuse to get our 1935 Bentley out of storage and back on the road.
Hamish Crawford kindly showed us around his Winery including his many British cars that share space with fermentation vessels! Out of this setup comes 100% local Saanich wine such as The Laird’s Ginger Sweethart which is apparently good to mix with scotch!
Following advice from Earl Kagna we started with the doors on our BJ8 restoration which led to the removal of the dash pad, front window and fenders.
This alone yielded numerous surprises including a sample of the original British Racing Green under the dash pad. Furthermore the car was very straight with all the inner fenders nicely intact.
Typical for this model, we were forced to immediately call Austin Healey AutoFarm Canada and order the inner, intermediate and outer sill pieces which will correct this car back to 100%.
With all the fenders off we carefully pried the center aluminum shroud off the car, eventually defeating the mastic plant resin to reveal the engine and chassis superstructure in one fell swoop.
