<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><title></title></head><body><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none">BMC never made good money with the Austin-Healeys. Production numbers too small, too much labour intensive.<br /></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none">The Austin Atlantic sold very bad. So the good thing was the left over Austin Atlantic engines could get a home.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Betreff: Re: [Healeys] Austin Sports cars</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">Datum: 2018-02-21T08:32:54+0100</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">Von: "i erbs" <eyera3000@gmail.com></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">An: "Patrick and Caroline Quinn" <p_cquinn@tpg.com.au></p>
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<div dir="auto">Call as you wish. Still fugly and Austin needed a home run.<br /><br />
<div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Ira Erbs<br />Portland, OR</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 20, 2018 5:36 PM, "Patrick & Caroline Quinn" <<a href="mailto:p_cquinn@tpg.com.au">p_cquinn@tpg.com.au</a>> wrote:<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Without the contacts made through the A40 Sports, Jenson Motors would not have been given the contract to build the new Austin-Healey 100.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Don’t bag what you don’t know.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hoo Roo<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Patrick Quinn<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Blue Mountains, Australia<u></u><u></u></p>
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