Finished complete concours restoration of 1960 MKI BT7

By ola7868giug On September 4, 2014

High quality restorers of Concours winning Healeys, Road, Race and Rally.

Welcome with all of your enquires.

magnus@healeyspecialists.com

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Front quarter view

: Loading

: Driving on to the trailer

: Owner collecting our most recent restoration

: First test drive

: Yours truly sampling the car for the last time

: Two gentlemen very pleased with the result

: A proud owner, to the right, and friend collect the car

: Completed and ready for delivery

: Interior as close to original as possible with the materials of today

: The place to be

: Interior custom made by us and for us

: I wish it was mine!

: What a great profile

: Beautiful and drives like a charm

: Engine detailed according to American concours standards

: Mildly tuned engine.

: The complete interior

: Great color combination

: Our latest and without doubt greatest restoration

: Very rare nos trafficator for non-adjustable steering wheel

: K&N air filters, since current repros are not really up for the work

: A real beauty

: Correct in every detail

: Full concours detailing

: Full aluminium body with perfect fit

: All systems go!

: Test driving gave no unpleasant surprises

: Rear quarter view, always impressive

: Badge

: It looks like a dream but more important drives like one

: Front quarter view

: Almost finished!

: Bonnet with a fit second to none

: Bonnet grille and top cowl

: Ash tray

: Door catch finisher plate

: Nos windscreen washer pump. Works well as opposed to reproductions

: Boot lid fits just as it should

: Factory fit after a lot of work on our part.

: Aluminium door that fits perfectly.

: Vacuum advance pipe

: Interior door handle. The door shuts and opens with the “Mercedes Benz feel”

: Interior custom made by us to correct original specs

: Work in progress

: Correctly detailed boot. Solid rivets at rear skirt.

: Custom made door panels. Much better than prefabricated.

: Perfect body panel fit

: Perfect fit of the hood and perfect door shut lines

: Sidescreen mounted

: Hood finished

: Distributor mounted to the engine

: Distributor refurbished with all nos Lucas parts

: Nos sparkplug lead and nos distributor cap

: Original hood frame

: Loop made of webbing

: Tonneau cover with Tenax fasteners

: Tonneau cover fitted

: Next the Everflex shall be folded over the header rail

: Almost finished

: Rear finished

: Header rail in place but work begins at the rear

: This hood doesn´t fit very well. Something has to be done.

: Completed header rail

: Upholstering the header rail

: Car with complete interior

: Completed seats

: Completed interior

: Seat back

: Seat cover sewn in England according to our correct template.

: Glueing seat covers

: Waiting for the cover

: Doing the foam and padding

: Rechromed bumper with aluminium front valance

: Rechromed original bumper fitted

: Windscreen on the car. It worked despite bad rubber seal

: Rechromed original Eversure rear view mirror

: Engine compartment near completion

: Door panel and anodized cockpit moulding

: Passenger door

: Door installed and painted

: Boot lid installed

: All aluminium body

: Looking good

: New rubber seal pops out and thus needs to be glued. -Not good!

: Exterior door handle and door lock

: Aluminium door

: Door panel fitted

: Trimming leather cloth

: Glueing leather cloth

: Door liners fitted

: Door being assembled

: Painted door

: Instruments

: Instruments in place and hooked up

: Horn mounted in its place

: Horn

: Horns completed and painted in the correct color

: Original choke wire with locking mechanism

: Back side of instruments

: Expertly restored instruments

: Completed rear seat area

: Wooden block for draught excluder in place

: Anodized aluminium cockpit mouldings

: Wooden block

: Dressing up wooden block for draught excluder

: Completed seat pans in place

: Completed front sides

: Completed back sides

: Stitched in place

: Stitching rear seat cover to pan

: Remove foam that for some reason is stitched to the back of the leather

: Oil filter assembly

: Cushions completed

: Seat frames completed

: Seat frames to be upholstered with leather cloth

: Pleated area of seat cover glued to foam

: Fabric glued to the middle part for reinforcement

: Foams secured to the pans with some thin fabric

: Foams glued to seat pans

: Seat foams “drilled” in order to make them softer

: Finished seat back

: Finished seat back

: Upholstering the rear seat back

: Head lamps and indicators in place

: Changing the head light harness to original type

: Rechromed original bumper

: Boot nearly there

: Original battery cable

: Reflector and indicator

: Original battery master switch and bracket

: Changing the knob to correct short original type

: Draught excluder and sill cover

: Original SU fuel pump

: Restored original Smiths fuel sending unit

: Fuel tank

: Quarter panel installed and completed

: Carpet set made in England to our spec. Much better than any prefabricated set.

: Cushion on transmission tunnel stitched in place

: Masking before painting Old English White

: Interior well on the way

: Stitching makes the final touch

: Completed door panel

: Under side

: Under side

: Bleeding the brakes and the clutch

: Refurbished starter armature

: Starter armature

: Hood frame

: Milling angled shims for door lock

: Hood frame

: Trial fitting of doors before painting OEW

: Rolling the car for calibration of speedo

: Routing of pipes and cables

: Lucas helmet battery terminal and cotton covered battery cable

: Stitched door liner panel

: Trial fitted rear quarter panel

: Back side

: Finished quarter panel

: Glueing leather cloth to rear quarter panel

: Countersunk rivet on rear quarter panel

: Finished backside

: Glueing backside leather cloth

: Cutting backside leather cloth

: Backside

: Finished front sides

: Trimmed cotton wadding

: Cotton wadding glued in place

: Fitting the trim screws

: Bending the rear quarter panels

: Making rear quarter panels

: Front suspension complete

: Capillary tubing in place

: Dual gauge and blanking plug for some Swedish cars

: Dual gauge

: Heater pipe and attaching hardware

: Heater pipe

: Blanking plug for starter button aperture

: Heater pipe and attaching hardware

: Primary aligment of front wheels

: Rechromed original bumper

: Rubber seal and dashtop with piping

: Dashtop with all hardware installed

: Dashtop in place

: White piping

: Flip side

: Leathercloth as original

: Rubber seal attached with split rivets

: Wadding is glued to the wood

: Rubber foam glued to the wood

: Rubber foam taped in place while glue cures

: Fitting the hardware

: Fitting the panel before upholstery

: The finished product

: Leathercloth

: Parcel shelf

: Leathercloth on door liners

: New door liners

: Door liner panels being fitted

: Template for door panel

: Dash top wood being made

: Templates for rear quarter panels

: Dash top wood being fitted

: Making of rear quarter panels

: Tubular exhaust with heat wrap

: Duo tone

: Ice Blue Metallic over Old English White

: Fitting of the gearbox tunnel

: Primed horns

: Back side HF 1748

: Restoring Lucas HF 1748 Horns

: HF 1748 horn

: Presssure testing rerouted front tubular exhaust manifold

: Fitting tubular exhaust manifold

: Rerouting manifold

: New pieces butwelded to manifold

: Cut manifold

: Installed gearbox

: Installed engine

: Engine in place

: Girling ckutch slave cylinder

: Shut pillar

: Badge

: Grille and Austin Healey badge

: Grille installed

: Grille aperture with lower grille lip

: Heater fan housing and ducts

: Collapsible steering and fresh air duct

: Car waiting for drivetrain to be installed

: Heater and dash

: Dash and steering lock

: Heater in place

: Collapsible steering column

: Dashboard in place

: Dashboard dressed up

: Heater completed

: Heater being assembled

: Steering column with nos lock

: Provision for lock on new column

: New steering column

: Nos steering wheel lock as supplied to some Swedish cars

: For steering wheel lock

: Original steering column with provision for lock

: Engine compartment

: Engine compartment

: Rear axle

: Painted wings

: Front suspension

: Rear inner hub

: Engine compartment

: Fitting the dashboard

: Refurbished underside

: Solid rivets as original at rear skirt

: Back to the shop for assembly

: Looks good

: Healey Ice Blue Metallic

: Primed and sealed seams

: Chassis mounted in “roaster” prior to painting

: Chassis shotblasted prior to painting

: Aluminium body

: Pressing in the overdrive oil pump

: Restored gearbox

: Overdrive disassembled

: Rear seat area

: Chassis and aluminium body taking shape

: Body work on the way

: Disassembled gearbox

: Gearbox and overdrive parted

: Disassembling gearbox

: Checking engine tolerances with plastelina

: Reconditioned and gas flowed head

: Body work with simple jig for aligment of front lights

: Adjusting the camshaft

: Assembled block

: Assembled block with milled valve pockets

: Painted with correct engine color derived from spectrometer test

: Block ready for painting

: Valve pockets about to be milled

: Sheet metal work

: Checking the sizes of the crank

: Disassembly of engine

: Beautiful aluminium body panels

: Bare chassis

: All paint and filler ground off front shroud

: A lot of work ahead

: Starting disassembly

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