[Healeys] Lot No: 433

m.brouillette at comcast.net m.brouillette at comcast.net
Wed Nov 23 08:29:22 MST 2011


Interesting question as also brought up by the auction house is if you owned this car, to what period would you restore this car if you did?  Would it be brought back to the original 1953 or the 1955 iteration?  Nice problem to have if you were made of money...

Mike Brouillette
59 Bt7 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Felts" <tomfelts at windstream.net>
To: "Jose Vicente Vargas" <jvvmusme at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Healey List" <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 9:52:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Lot No: 433

The only reason I asked was that this appeared to be a "prototype" leading to the 100S--------but not "technically" one of the 52 100S's.

It was listed as "1953-55 Austin-Healey Special Test Car/100S Prototype Sports-", and they said "As part of his original Austin-Healey Hundred production agreement with Leonard Lord of the British Motor Corporation, specialist constructor Donald Healey had undertaken to produce four Special Test Cars for racing and record breaking"

So, it is a historic and very valuable car, but my question was --was it truly one of THE 52 (I believe) 100S models that we hear so much about.

No problem either way--it is a valuable car.

tom,


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