Larry Varley's Nash Healey restoration
 Including technical and historic Documentation


My 1954 Nash Healey LeMans Coupe restoration
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This 1954 Nash Healey was, for most of it's life owned by Roy D Stetina, who like quite a few owners in the late fifties converted the car from the Nash 6 cylinder engine to V8 power. Roy owned this car from the late fifties until the time of his death in 2007. It appears the car was never completely finished. Roy was an advertising artist and portrait painter, who also owned a small foreign car dealership in Fort Wayne Indiana. The Nash Healey was damaged by fire at the dealership and went into storage for many years. The speedometer in the car is engraved  " Farina Corvette - Healey Stetina 1960 " The car came to me with much of the documentation on this page including many hand drawings and notes planning out performance modifications for the car. It seems only fitting to complete the project that has been ongoing for over 50 years.
Parts I need for my Car
Front Grill Assembly or parts
Left curved section of rear windscreen
Interior light lens
Door key lock
rear number plate lamp

Nash Healey owners gallery
Please send me photos of your car and I'll add them here
Either completed cars or the current state of your project is fine
Gallery
Nash Healey parts and services
Nash Healey registry contact Judy Brookes
Front windscreens, 54 coupe rear window seals, improved front spring seats. contact Jim Walton
Reproduction body hardware Verdones
Nashparts.com
Pinin Farina badges Black Bart's Emporium
Nash Rambler Rubber torque tube stabiliser

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

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, and V8 Nash Healeys

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.

From December 1958 Speed Mechanics magazine 2 articles on V8 conversions. the first by Carl Chakmakian on his American Motors 327 conversion, and the second by Douglas Woods on his 283 Chev Corvette conversion

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

Nash Healey Car Club circa 1970

Nash Healey Car Club magazine Vol 1 No1

Nash Healey Car Club magazine Vol 1 No2

Nash Healey Car Club magazine Vol 1 No3

Nash Healey Car Club magazine Vol 1 No4

Nash Healey Car Club magazine Vol 1 No5

Nash Healey Car Club magazine Vol 1 No6

Club Register 1973



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