[Healeys] E bay

Kent McLean kentmclean at comcast.net
Tue Nov 10 05:41:27 MST 2009


Patrick Quinn wrote:
> I just have to keep reminding you blokes that the cars you own are not "REAL
> Healeys", they are Austin-Healeys.
> 
> While the Austin-Healey 100 is most certainly the purest to the original
> design it is still an Austin-Healey.

But for one brief, shining moment, the car stood on a stand at Earl's Court in 
1952 as a Healey 100 -- no hyphen, no Austin. Then Leonard Lord got to DMH, and 
it became an Austin-Healey. So the Healey 100, at least that one example, is a 
"REAL Healey". The thousands that followed are Austin-Healeys. I have one of the 
rare non-M models. :)

-- 
Kent McLean
'56 100 BN2


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