Nash Healey restoration documents and manuals

The Nash Healey restoration and documentation website

This website is about the promotion, restoration and knowledge sharing of the Nash Healey marque

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My Nash Healey

The Folling pages follow the restoration of my 1954 Nash Healey coupe chassis 3076
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Nash Healey owners gallery
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Either completed cars or the current state of your project is fine
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Please register your Nash Healey with Judy Brookes at Nash Healey registry, it is completely free
and you will recieve a free copy of the Nash Healey Newsletter

The Current list of registery listed cars, with names and contact details withheld
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Nash Healey Links to parts and services

Front windscreens, 54 coupe rear window seals, improved front spring seats. contact Jim Walton
Nash Healey specific reproduction parts Cranberry Run Constructions Inc
Reproduction body hardware Verdones
General Nash parts Nashparts.com
Pinin Farina badges, crown and Nash / Farina Flags Black Bart's Emporium
Refurbished torque tube stabiliser Nash Rambler Rubber
Online Nash Healey registry
Nash Healey Owners Group Forum

Free Nash Healey parts and cars wanted and for sale
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Nash Healey and Healey technical and historic documents

This section of the web site deals with technical and historic documents relating to Nash Healey sports cars. Primarily the documents are those that were given to me upon purchase of my 1954 Nash Healey LeMans Coupe, and were the property of Roy D Stetina a previous owner of this car. As time permits I will add all of these documents to this page, and also build on the collection. Some of the documents relate to the formation of the first Nash Healey Association in 1958 including newsletters and correspondence. They provide some insight in the Nash Healey as seen in the days when they were near new cars. Some lucky owners may find reference to their cars, as there are some car numbers mentioned.
Any further document contributions would be appreciated and credited, so if you have further information you would like to share on this page, I would be happy to publish it here.
Regards
Larry Varley
20 Park Crescent
Boronia 3155
Melbourne
Australia
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Nash Healey technical data

1954 Nash Healey coupe dimension drawing printable

1951 Nash Healey owner manual

1951 Nash Healey introduction

1951 Nash Healey brochure

1951 technical manual supplement Nash Healey

1952 1953 technical manual supplement Nash Healey

1954 Nash Healey coupe factory photos

Nash Healey LeMans Coupe 1953 factory release photo

Nash Healey LeMans Coupe 1954 factory release photo

Nash Healey black and white brochure

Nash Healey colour brochure

Nash Healey parts list

Nash Healey 1951 specifications - factory publication

Nash Healey story from American Motors 1969

Girling PV dampers

Accelerator control drawing by George Herbert

Body production of the early Nash Healey at Panelcraft

Now it's yours brochure Lemans engine

Power to win brochure

Healey, Abbott, Tickford, Silverstone and Sportsmobile

Healey the fastest car in the world

Healey Abbott Brochure

Healey 2.4 litre chassis

Healey 2.4 litre Healey chassis red and white

Healey Sportsmobile factory photos black and white

Healey Sportsmobile colour Photos

Healey Tickford sales literature

Healey Tickford sales literature black and white

Healey 2.4 litre instruction book

Healey 2.4 litre Motorsport article 1947

Healey Silverstone brochure

Healey Silverstone 2 sided brochure

Healey Silverstone supercharger

Roy Stetina Letters

Roy D Stetina letters.
Correspondence between Roy, Ferril Miller, American Motors, Iskenderian Cams and George Herbert regarding performance improvements to the Nash engine, and V8 conversions.

Nash Healey V8 Conversions
At the time of production the Nash Healey was the product of the Nash - Kelvinator Corporation, in 1954 Nash Aquired the Hudson Motor Car Company and created The American Motors Corporation ( AMC ). However during production of the Nash Healey only the Nash 6 cylinder engine was available. In 1955 the AMC V8 was available, so some cars were converted to AMC V8 by dealers and staff, as well as a few owners who also saw the opportunity to increase power using the light weight and more powerful V8 engines from various manufacturers that were becoming available. This section of the site is about these cars, which is also part of cl;assic car history where young men looked to create their own sports cars based on available parts.

Carl Chakmakian worked for AMC in Detroit as Engineering and Service Operations Manager and Racing Director.

Title page

Carl Chakmakian on his American Motors 327 conversion

Doug Woods conversion
Douglas Woods on his 283 Chev Corvette conversion

James Moore and Les Viland's Farina Nash Siata Roadster
American Motors product manager James Moore's conversion to AMC V8.
This car appears to be a prototype built with a Siata chassis rather than the Healey chassis used on all of the other Nash Healey Production. In the Nash Healey Association bulletin number 6 from 1959 it is described as a 54 / 55 car and called a Farina Nash Siata Roadster. I have not been able to determine if the car still exists.
Speed Age article

Nash Healey Association circa 1958

Membership list 1958

Nash Healey notes 5th Jan 1958

Nash Healey Association Bulletin 1

Nash Healey Association Bulletin 2

Nash Healey Association Bulletin 3

Nash Healey Association Bulletin 4

Nash Healey Association Bulletin 6

Nash Healey Association Bulletin 7

Letter to Pinin Farina advising association formation

Letter to Donald Healey advising association formation

Letter from James T Moore ( American Motors )

Harold Baldwin letter

Howard Blackburn letter

Bob Loudon letter

Frederick Celler letter

George Herbert letter

Kent Martin letter 1

Kent Martin letter 2

Ed McCarthy letter

Paul Schreiner letter

J . Murray Smith letter

Manuel Suares letter

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Nash Healey information exchange
Supplied by Ed Grace
published by Verlin Boes August 1 1991
Only one edition known to be published
nhie.pdf

Nash Healey News

The Nash Healey News is a newsletter by Judy Brookes that is sent by email to all Nash Healey owners that have listed their cars in the registry

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This article originally Published in the Jan-Mar 2014 issue of the Australian Austin-Healey, describes the story of the Nash Healey and how I came to be restoring my own car.
Patrick Quinn, editor. p_cquinn@tpg.com.au
Partick Quinn Article

My second 1954 Coupe Chassis number 3143

Click this link for images and details of the car

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