Re: 1953 Caribbean Prototype
Posted by Leeedy On 2017/3/17 12:38:35
Your Nash-Healey appears to be a series II car. Series I was slightly different with a very different windshield. I have 8 x 10 photos of the original prototype for series I that I have have had since the 1970s. I knew the designer.
By the way, in the Packard items auctioned in 2014 when the Mitchell Museum (as in Mitchell-Bentley) closed, there were photos of a metallic green Nash-Healey. I also have those photos. Mitchell-Bentley claimed to have involvement with the car. Photo was claimed to be prototype. You will note that this windshield frame is slightly different from your production model.
I have quite a few Nash-Healey items saved over the years. Here is one of the original photos of the series II green car from Mitchell-Bentley (same folks who worked on Packard Balboa, Panthers, Caribbeans etc.). By the way, this photo was taken in the 1950s and was claimed to be a prototype Nash-Healey series II. Uh... the green color (so I was told by Bill Mitchell in the 1970s) is the same that Mitchell-Bentley used on the 1953 Caribbean. Hmmmm.
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By the way, in the Packard items auctioned in 2014 when the Mitchell Museum (as in Mitchell-Bentley) closed, there were photos of a metallic green Nash-Healey. I also have those photos. Mitchell-Bentley claimed to have involvement with the car. Photo was claimed to be prototype. You will note that this windshield frame is slightly different from your production model.
I have quite a few Nash-Healey items saved over the years. Here is one of the original photos of the series II green car from Mitchell-Bentley (same folks who worked on Packard Balboa, Panthers, Caribbeans etc.). By the way, this photo was taken in the 1950s and was claimed to be a prototype Nash-Healey series II. Uh... the green color (so I was told by Bill Mitchell in the 1970s) is the same that Mitchell-Bentley used on the 1953 Caribbean. Hmmmm.
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