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The Austin-Healey 100 is a sports car that was built by Austin-Healey from 1953 until 1956. Based on Austin A90 Atlantic mechanicals, it was developed by Donald Healey from his Nash-Healey 2 door sports car, which had Nash mechanicals instead, [ 3 ] to be produced in-house by his small Healey car company in Warwick. [ 1 ]
The 100-6 was produced in two model designators, the 2+2 BN4 from 1956 onwards and the 2-seat BN6 in 1958–9. The cars used a tuned version of the BMC C-Series engine previously fitted to the Austin Westminster, initially producing 102 bhp (76 kW) and increased in 1957 to 117 bhp (87 kW) by fitting a revised manifold and cylinder head. [4]
Austin-Healey was a British sports car maker established in 1952 through a joint venture between the Austin division of the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and the Donald Healey Motor Company (Healey), a renowned automotive engineering and design firm.
Austin chief Sir Leonard Lord was so impressed when he saw it on the Healey stand at the 1952 Earls Court Motor Show he offered to make it in his own factories under the name Austin-Healey 100. [ 2 ] The result was a 1953 a joint venture which created the Austin-Healey marque with the British Motor Corporation manufacturing the cars and the ...
Austin-Healey 100(/4) & 100/6 (1953–56, 1956–1959), produced by BMC and Jensen Motors at West Bromwich UK; Austin-Healey Sprite (1958–1971), produced by BMC at Abingdon; Austin-Healey 3000 (1959–1967), produced by BMC and Jensen Motors; Jensen-Healey (1972–1976), a joint venture with Jensen produced by Jensen Motors; Kit-car. Hult ...
Austin-Healey 100; Austin-Healey 100-6; ... Austin-Healey Sprite; Sprite Car Club of Australia This page was last edited on 28 March 2013, at 00:49 (UTC). ...
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