Rudi Gernreich's Nash Healey coupe, single rear glass

[HistoryBuff]

Only 46 years ago I was driving by a clothes designer's shop in West Hollywood and saw a Nash Healey LeMans coupe, brown, with the single pane back window (not the wrap around three pane window). I asked if I could borrow it to photograph it and , as journalists are wont to do, damaged it, anyway it wouldn't shift but I managed to roll from the top of the

Hollywood Hills back to Hollywood and re-park it. (Sorry, Rudi...). Now I'd like to know if any Nash Healey guys know who owns that particular car so I can mention what happened to it. Rudi might be just a footnote in fashion design today but I have a soft place in my heart for the guy that invented the topless bathing suit

[Restorer32]

There is a fellow in Aberdeen, MD who owns 80 Nash Healeys and won't

sell a one. Statistically speaking it is likely he owns it. His name escapes me at the moment.

[StillOutThere]

On 5/24/2016 at 6:07 AM, Restorer32 said:

There is a fellow in Aberdeen, MD who owns 80 Nash Healeys and won't

sell a one. Statistically speaking it is likely he owns it. His name escapes me at the moment.

 

You are thinking of Leonard McGrady.   His son is also involved with the collection.  I have no idea where that car is but I can tell you as a convertible N-H owner they are a joy to own and drive.

Edited July 14, 2016 by StillOutThere (see edit history)

[Restorer32]

Yep, I've toured his buildings. Frustratingly he will not sell even one car, or at least not one of the cars we are interested in. I suspect you might know which ones. I would call his cars an "accumulation" rather than a "collection".I Nice fellow. Even knowing that price was almost no object he wouldn't even listen to offers.