HealeyRick Rick Neville (490 posts) Registered: 12/19/2007 05:01PM Main British Car: 1963 Austin-Healey 3000 Ford 5.0L |
Nasty Boys
Putting this in the pub although it's mostly about Healeys, I thought it might be of interest to the rest of you guys. I wrote an article on modified Healeys for the July-August issue of the Austin-Healey Magazine, the magazine of the Austin-Healey Club USA. In addition to featuring a number of individual cars, I did some pieces on the history of Nasty Boys going back to the 1950s you might find of interest. It's been reprinted here: [bighealey.org] Hope you enjoy it.
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MGBV8 Carl Floyd Kingsport, TN (4513 posts) Registered: 10/23/2007 11:32PM Main British Car: 1979 MGB Buick 215 |
Re: Nasty Boys
Very fine job, Rick! I can believe the origin of the name. In fact, if it was me wondering around all those stock Healeys back then & someone fired up a V8 modded one, I might have said, "Boy, that sounds nasty!" So, it is easy to believe that is how they came to be known.
As for on the wane, hotrodding will never go out out of style. Great pic of Leroy & Sue, btw. Just the way I remember them. |
kstevusa kelly stevenson Southern Middle Tennessee (985 posts) Registered: 10/25/2007 09:37AM Main British Car: 2003 Jaguar XK8 Coupe 4.2L DOHC/ VVT / 6sp. AT |
Re: Nasty Boys
Thanks Rick for info and article link. Met Leroy & Sue at some of our Brit V8 meets and enjoyed our conversations. Rain or shine, He was out driving the car.
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Sidecardoug Doug Rowe Northern Nevada (51 posts) Registered: 07/04/2012 05:09PM Main British Car: 1969 TR-6 Ford 302 |
Re: Nasty Boys
Great article ! Took me back to my ' 61 with a built 289 & BW 4speed - great for cruisin' the old
17 from Los Gatos to Santa Cruz... ( of course now that road is a traffic jam at most hours....) Back when I was in high school, I worked at Mission Linen Supply on Del Monte Blvd in Monterey, CA, and one of my co-workers was a student at the local college named Larry Oda. One evening he gave me a ride in his yellow Bugeye... I don't think I've ever experienced such acceleration in any other car - His car was later featured as an " Isky car of the month " in Hot Rod - he was running a built 327 backed by a B& M Hydro, and that car would launch so hard it felt like I was going out over the back, held in place only by my lap belt ! If I recall correctly, the Isky feature stated he was running in the 10's - pretty quick for 1965 ! |
HealeyRick Rick Neville (490 posts) Registered: 12/19/2007 05:01PM Main British Car: 1963 Austin-Healey 3000 Ford 5.0L |
Re: Nasty Boys
I remember seeing Larry Oda's car in HR when I owned my first Sprite in high school. In fact, I started to put a 327 in my bugeye, but fortunately my mechanical abilities were soon outpaced.
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