[Healeys] Austin Sports cars

i erbs eyera3000 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 20 18:37:56 MST 2018


Call as you wish. Still fugly  and Austin needed a home run.

Ira Erbs
Portland, OR

On Feb 20, 2018 5:36 PM, "Patrick & Caroline Quinn" <p_cquinn at tpg.com.au>
wrote:

> Hello
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> If it wasn’t for cars like the Austin A40 Sports there wouldn’t be an
> Austin-Healey in the numbers that were eventually made.
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> The A40 Sports were made by Jensen Motors with an all alloy body under
> contract to Austin in the pre-BMC period. Released in late 1950 the A40
> Sports was not marketed as a sports car, but as a touring car.
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> Without the contacts made through the A40 Sports, Jenson Motors would not
> have been given the contract to build the new Austin-Healey 100.
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> The A40 Sports was and is quite a spirited performer and I would be very
> pleased to have one in my garage as they formed a very important part of
> the late 1940s and 1950s British automotive history.
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> Don’t bag what you don’t know.
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> Hoo Roo
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> Patrick Quinn
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> Blue Mountains, Australia
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> *From:* Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] *On Behalf Of *i
> erbs
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 21 February 2018 6:24 AM
> *To:* Ahealey help
> *Subject:* [Healeys] Austin Sports cars
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> In case you ever wonder why Leonard Lord wanted the Healey 100. Take a
> look at Austin's 52 sports car
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> [image: Inline image 1]
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> Ira Erbs
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> Portland,OR
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>           BT7 engine and disk brakes
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> 1967 MGB  [image: MG]
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> A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. Mario Andretti
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> Please excuse random auto corrects and misspelled words
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