[Healeys] What's your Healey, and what Healeys have you owned?

[Joseph Costa]

>From a TR4 I had when I met my wife, to a '67 vette I dragged on NYC
streets to my first Healey in 1981 aka the "Blue Baby".  I still have her
and added #923 the coronet cream in '98.  In '06 I stumbled on a factory
100M for sale and couldn't pass it up.  Like potato chips "you can't have
just one".  And if this were an awards acceptance speech I would now give
credit to a great wife, Marge.  If I were a drug addict she would be an
enabler.  I tend to keep cars and my only wife makes life uncomplicated.

Joe


On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 8:35 PM, <ATIGHTPROD at aol.com> wrote:

> Got my first Austin-Healey in 1970 when I got out of the Army. Bought it
> from my brother, it was 1960 3000 with a Ferrari GT250 fiberglass front
> end.
> The  car been run in to a house and my brother decided to fix it and give
> it
> some  charm. Never did finish the front end out, but it looked pretty cool
> and I ran  the car for about two years until I killed it. I was a bit
> stupid
> back  then.
> Second one was a '64 3000 with the wood dash, bought it from a friend cause
>  it had a blown clutch. Fixed the clutch and drove the devil out of it
> until I  went through a divorce and had to sell everything. Oh well.
> Third one was a '60 3000 again. A steel wheel model that ran and ran  and
> ran. Really nice car and sold that one to pay for a vasectomy reversal. The
> reversal worked and now I have a 21 year old daughter named Austen. No
> regrets  there.
> Now I have a 1953 100, a completely matching numbers car, originally sold
> in December of '53 in Encino, California. Not only do I have the bill of
> sale,  but I also have the factory build card which lists the car as a BM1,
> typo error,  and a stack of receipts going back to its first oil change.
> $5.41.
> The car is  completely documented and has only a little over 55,000 miles
> on it. One  re-spray paint job and new seat covers, but it's never been
> apart
> and runs  great.
> I looked for almost five years to find a 100 and this one found me off of
> ebay. It was for sale in Southern California so I went to look at it and
> when I saw it, I bought it. You just can't argue with fate.
> Steven Kingsbury
> BN1 #598
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