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Austin-Healey

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Models built
Austin-Healey 100 Austin-Healey 100-6 Austin-Healey 3000 Austin-Healey Sprite
Gallery
Concept Cars
Racing
Successors
In popular culture
See also
References

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Austin-Healey was a British sports car maker established in 1952 through a joint venture between the Austin division of the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and the Donald Healey Motor Company (Healey), a renowned automotive engineering and design firm. Leonard Lord represented BMC and Donald Healey his firm.

BMC merged with Jaguar Cars in 1966 to form British Motor Holdings (BMH). Donald Healey left BMH in 1968 when it merged into British Leyland. Healey then joined Jensen Motors, which had been making bodies for the "big Healeys" since their inception in 1952, and became their chairman in 1972. Austin-Healey cars were produced until 1972 when the 20-year agreement between Healey and Austin came to an end.

Models built

Austin-Healey 100

1953–55 BN1 Austin-Healey 100
1955 Austin-Healey 100S (Limited production—50 race-prepared cars)
1955–56 BN2 Austin-Healey 100 and 100M

Austin-Healey 100-6

1956–57 BN4 Austin-Healey 100-6 (2+2 roadster)
1957–59 BN4 Austin-Healey 100-6 Change to {{frac|1|3|4}}-inch SU Carbs (2+2 roadster)
1958–59 BN6 Austin-Healey 100-6 6-Cylinder (2-seater roadster)

Austin-Healey 3000

1959–61 BN7 Mark I (2-seater roadster), BT7 Mark I (2+2 roadster)
1961–62 BN7 Mark II (2-seater roadster), BT7 Mark II (2+2)
1962–63 BJ7 Mark II (2+2 convertible)
1963–67 BJ8 Mark III (2+2 convertible)

Austin-Healey Sprite

1958–61 AN5 Mark I (UK: "Frogeye"; US: "Bugeye")
1961–64 HAN6–HAN7 Mark II
1964–66 HAN8 Mark III (roll-up windows)
1966–69 HAN9 Mark IV
1969–71 AAN10 Mark IV (UK only)

Gallery

Concept Cars

Austin-Healey Project Tempest (2005)

Racing

The Austin Healey was extensively raced by the Donald Healey Motor Company in Europe at Le Mans and in Sebring in the U.S., in classic rallies by the BMC competitions department, and was recognized from the very beginning by the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA). Healey models raced in club racing in D, E, and F production classes, winning National Championships in both D and E Production. The last Big Healey to win an SCCA National Championship was the class E Production Austin-Healey 100-6 driven by Alan Barker at the Daytona ARRC in 1965.

In 1953, a special streamlined Austin-Healey set several land speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA.

Successors

The name Austin is now owned by Nanjing, which bought the assets of MG Rover Group (British Leyland's successor company) out of bankruptcy in 2005. After Donald Healey sold his original business, Donald Healey Motor Company, the Healey brand was registered to a new firm, Healey Automobile Consultants, which the Healey family sold to HFI Automotive in 2005.{{cn|date=April 2014}}

In June 2007, Nanjing and Healey Automobile Consultants / HFI Automotive signed a collaborative agreement that aims to recreate the Austin Healey and Healey marques alongside NAC's MG. No timeline has been given as to when the Healey and Austin-Healey brands will return, although MG will be back on the market in China and the UK by the year's end.{{cn|date=April 2014}}

In popular culture

In Mad Men S7/E1: "Time Zones" (13 April 2014), Megan picks up Don at LAX in a green, 1969 Austin-Healey convertible.^[1]
The video for Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears had Curt Smith driving a British racing green Austin-Healey 3000 around Southern Californian Landmarks including Cabazon, California and Salton Sea.
In "The Father of the Bride" and "The Father of the Bride II" George Banks (Steve Martin) drives a MKII.
In Home Improvement Tim the toolman Taylor gets into trouble when he drives Jill Taylor's Austin-Healey without her permission.
In The Invisible Man (1958 TV series) the Invisible Man Dr. Peter Brady and his widowed sister often drive his 1958 Austin-Healey 100/6.^[2]
Harry O . Private Investigator TV show 1974-1976 starring David Jansen. In the series he drove an Austin Healey Sprite Mark III dove grey with red interior.(According to Dr. Daniel J. Benny Private Investigator).
National Lampoons Vacation. Clark Griswald makes a reference to the Austin Healey he drove in college.
In Losing Chase, Chase, the main character of the movie, played by Helen Mirren, drives a red 1965 Austin Healey Sprite. The car represents her freedom and had seat belts added to the back seat so her kids could ride in the back.
In Endeavour S3 Ep1 “Ride” Joss Bixby tells Morse he has just taken delivery of “The new Klipspringer Continental”. In actual fact it is the Austin Healey 3000.
In Transformers Sam Witwicky’s father Ron Witwicky owned a 1961 Austin Healey 3000, While driving Sam Witwicky to a local dealership to purchase Sam’s first car.

References

1. ^{{cite news|work=New York Post|url=https://nypost.com/2014/04/14/10-things-that-made-us-cheer-on-the-mad-men-season-7-premiere/|title=10 things that made us cheer on the ‘Mad Men’ Season 7 premiere|author=Rorke, Robert|date=14 April 2014 }}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_18819-Austin-Healey-100-6-BN4-1958.html|title=1958 Austin-Healey 100/6 [BN4]|last=|first=|date=|publisher=|access-date=31 December 2016|work=Internet Movie Car Database}}

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