Pennock bodied Healey – one step closer

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Not too long ago we came across a picture of the eccentric Van denPlas bodied Healey (click here). Unfortunately our request did not lead to any more clarification on the possible whereabouts of that car. But we’ve got another chance for you now.

There was also a Pennock bodied Healey. By Pennock of The Hague in The Netherlands, that is. That car is not quite as unconventional as the one by Van den Plas, but it is surely worth a search, too, we think. Trouble is that information is very scarce. All that we had were the two photographs seen below, plus a mention of the car winning its class in a concours d’elegance in 1949.

But when we were looking for some more information about the concours in question for a totally different reason, we stumbled upon the Healey once again. There it was, once again, being mentioned in an article in a magazine of ’49. But it was in a later issue of the same magazine that we actually found a new photo of the car in question. There it was again, in a hill climb of all events. And the number plate was now well visible: M-26398. That said us something about the province where it had been issued: Gelderland. What’s more: the name of the owner was amentioned in the caption also: a mister Wm. H. A. M. Penn. That’s William Penn, and it fits in perfectly with one of the other two photographs, on which a sign with Penn’s name can just be seen.

We found that mister Penn was head of the Institute of Diagnostic Radiology of the St. Radboud Hospital and also professor of radiology in the Faculty of Medicine at the Catholic University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. This should make it quite a lot easier to try and track down the car? Could it survive?

(Words and archive picture Jeroen Booij / coachbuild.com)

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