Hot Rods Restoring the Hemi-Healy BB/GS

I willing to bet Rob will make it work.
Bad *** car. Another sure home run from him. Can't wait!

 

That is just great you found your fathers old drag car... You will certainly draw a huge crowd, once again at the track... Amazing after all these years, it still has the front rims on the car.

Any pic's of the car currently ? We have to have, before and after pic's.....

Two piece intake, who cares, it is an awsome piece...

 

I probably saw this car run at englishtown. I just about lived there from the late 60's and on. Got to ask some of my old buddies about it. Nice car. Ken

 

I don't think either Rob or his father would have any problem wittling one out of a hunk of aluminum.

 

Yea...T-shirt for me too !!!

 

Way cool!

 

Yeah...they would.

 

No....no they wouldn't.

 

Not familiar with the interchagability issues between 354s and 392s but I think you might actually still be able to get the Isoport manifolds from Roto-Faze.
http://www.roto-faze.com/

 

I remember that car from waaay back. Great that you found it and are going to restore it to the way dad built it. BTW, does he know about this or are you going to try and surprise him after it's done? Now that would be really cool.

Frank

 

Wow! Subscribed and cannot wait to see details regarding how the car looks now. And of course looking forward to the build.

My son has a little Austin that my stepmother drove to college 40 plus years ago. It is great fun to have the little car in our garage now. We just p***ed on a nice little shell on the auction site, but don't think we didn't dream of hitting "buy it now" and building a terror.



How cool a story this Hemi car is going to be!!!

 

If you are thinking of offering the T shirts for sale I would really like to order one.

Was the Healey ch***is the basis for the frame in the race car? I realize that lots of engineering would have to go in it to handle not only the weight of the Hemi but the m***ive horsepower. Even though the sbc in my Healey was lighter than the original six the ch***is did seem to have a lot of unwanted flex.

Best of luck with the rebuild, I would like to know more about how you found it.

 

Here are a few pics of the car when it we were told about it. It ended up in Indianapolis but it was junked here in NJ in the early 70's. Someone must have thought it was cool enough to keep from the crusher so it moved on. Whovere saved it was going to try to restore it back to stock, as they ac***ulated a few parts like a stock rear, trans, engine and other parts. The drag race suspension is till in there as are the wheel adapter to put on the Crager front wheels.

 

Another old shot of the Hemi-Healy

 

T Shirts are available at www.RobIdaConcepts.com

 

Stunning... Show "them" how you will build your intake !

Can't wait...

 

That is very cool. Restoring your dad's ols race car has to be over the top. Good for you guys.

Wouldn't that car have run MP though, as "Sports Cars" were generally not legal in the G***er cl***es? Just curious

 

Looking through my old rule book I see that the Gas cl***es and Street Roadster (for American made roadsters) were combined to run together but no mention of M/SP. Interesting. I wonder if that was a regional thing of combining cl***es?
Nitro Funny Car didn't become a cl*** until the following year, 1969, so maybe they were trying to hold it off? Don't know

 

For 1968 the M/SP were joined into gas. Just at my local strip for instance, Bill ****'s (Bills Speed Shop) 57 T-Bird, Gianninos "Executoner" 57 Vette and Midwest 57 Vette, Berkley Auto ("Gorilla") 57 Vette all were forced out of M/SP into gas.

Cool Healy by the way-good to see you are going to bring it back-Jim

 

*****in car! I am going to build my 53 AH 100 with a Desoto hemi. Nothing of this caliber but a fun street car none the less.

If you get more pictures of the ch***is setup I would like to see them. Thanks

 

Very cool car but considering the crazy money the big Healeys go for these days, I don't think I would build one from a stock one.

 

True stock AH 100's are almost corvette prices but modified ones are pretty reasonable. I see old V8 conversion healeys come up for sale often for good prices.

 

Joe still has a couple of manifolds left.

 

Once again, I will say. You are not going to bolt any production one piece intake onto a 354 block with 392 heads. A 392 with 354 heads..yes..with spacers. Not the other way around. I highly doubt anyone ever had an intake cast that would fit, because it is ultra counter productive. Did the original build use an intake that someone cut an inch off each side and welded on new flanges? I doubt it, but stranger things have happened. I love how people, who obviously dont know, would rather argue about something like this, than to just ask "why not". Anyway, good luck with the project. I have 392 heads if you need them.

 

he is working on one for us now. thanks!

 

Thanks, yes you are right, but we never let simply not be able to bolt something on stop us. We have been making, machining and modifying intake manifolds for decades. this is no big deal, but thanks for the input.

 

The car was cut up so badly from the g***er days that restoring it back to original makes less sense than restoring it back to its G***er days.

 

I am a fan of original Healy's, but IMO this one needs to go back to what it was when it was racing with the Hemi in it. That car was truly bad***. Good luck with the re-build!!