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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.
The Austin-Healey 3000 is a British sports car built from 1959 until 1967. It is the best known of the "big Healey" models. The car's bodywork was made by Jensen Motors and the vehicles were assembled at BMC's MG Works in Abingdon, alongside the corporation's MG models.
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 ]
Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite; Austin-Healey Sprite; Sprite Car Club of Australia This page was last edited on 28 March 2013, at 00:49 (UTC). Text is ...
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 ...
Five Healey-prepared BMC works cars were driven by Ed Leavens, Briggs Cunningham, Dick Thompson, Bruce McLaren and Walt Hansgen. There were also two of John Sprinzel 's striking coupes, piloted by one of the top-rated Grand Prix drivers of all time, Stirling Moss, together with his sister Pat Moss , Britain's most successful woman rally driver.
The Austin-Healey Sprite is a small open sports car produced in the United Kingdom from 1958 until 1971. The Sprite was announced to the press in Monte Carlo by the British Motor Corporation on 20 May 1958, two days after that year's Monaco Grand Prix .
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 Healey, Swedish kit-car; See also. Healey 1000/4 (1971–1977), motorcycle built in Redditch