Austin-Healey was a British sports car maker established in 1952 through a joint venture between the Austin division of the British Motor Corporation...
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Austin Sean Healey (born 26 October 1973 in Wallasey (now part of Merseyside, formerly Cheshire), is a former English rugby union player who played as...
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The Austin-Healey Sprite is a small open sports car produced in the United Kingdom from 1958 until 1971. The Sprite was announced to the press in Monte...
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The Austin-Healey 100 is a sports car that was built by Austin-Healey from 1953 until 1956. Based on Austin A90 Atlantic mechanicals, it was developed...
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The Austin-Healey 3000 is a British sports car built from 1959 until 1967. It is the best known of the "big Healey" models. The car's bodywork was made...
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for Healey, in part because Jensen had been making body shells for Austin-Healey since the 1952 demise of the similar Austin A40 Sports. Healey's first...
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Haynes Group, 1996) ISBN 0-85429-949-1 Geoffrey Healey, Austin Healey The Story of the Big Healeys. (Wilton House Gentry, 1977) ISBN 0-85614-051-1 Wikimedia...
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1956–1959 Austin-Healey 100-6 1959–1967 Austin-Healey 3000 1958–1970 Austin-Healey Sprite 1971 Austin Sprite Australian Austin cars 1958–1962 Austin Lancer...
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British Motor Corporation (section Austin-Healey)
producing a wide range of cars under brand names including Austin, Morris, MG, Austin-Healey, Riley, and Wolseley, as well as commercial vehicles and agricultural...
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Austin-Healey 100-6 is a two-seat roadster that was announced in late September 1956 and produced from 1956 until 1959. A replacement for the Austin-Healey...
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production of the Austin-Healey 3000 ended, Donald Healey opened discussions with Jensen Motors, who had built the bodies for Healey's Austin-Healey cars. The...
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BMC ADO16 (redirect from Austin 1100)
engine block already familiar to drivers of newer Mini Cooper S and Austin-Healey Sprite models with the 1100 transmission, its gear ratios remaining...
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essentially a slightly more expensive badge-engineered version of the MkII Austin-Healey Sprite deluxe version. The original 'frogeye' Sprite had been introduced...
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Morris Minor (redirect from Austin 6cwt)
use in a range of their smaller vehicles, including the Austin A35, A40 Farina, and Austin-Healey Sprite/MG Midget, to maximise parts sharing and thus reduce...
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BMC ADO17 (redirect from Austin 1800)
September 1964 to 1975. The car was initially sold under the Austin marque as the Austin 1800, then by Morris as the Morris 1800, and by Wolseley as the...
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usually set up by Shaw. In a special series-three episode, a 1962 Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite destined for the British Motor Museum was restored with...
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six-cylinders, over the Austin-designed four-cylinder 2.6-litre BS1 engine installed in the Austin A90 Atlantic and Austin-Healey 100. Austin's engineers attributed...
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Oxford MO (BMC) 1954 Austin Cambridge (BMC) 1958 Austin Healey Sprite (BMC) 1959 Triumph Herald (Standard-Triumph) 1959 Austin Gipsy (BMC) 1959 Mini...
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See Austin 10 for the Cambridge models of 1937 to 1947. See Austin A40 for other A40 models. The Austin Cambridge (sold as A40, A50, A55, and A60) is...
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Jensen Motors (section Jensen-Healey)
by Donald Healey, Jensen did win the BMC contract to build the bodies for the resultant Austin-Healey 100 and the rest of the "big Healey" cars. At the...
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The Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite is a small sports car that was produced by the Donald Healey Motor Company at its Cape Works in Warwick and at the Healey's...
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three top places. In August, Shelby drove with Donald Healey and his team. In an Austin-Healey 100S and supercharged 100S, they set Class D National speed...
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given the model code ADO52. It was intended as a replacement for the Austin-Healey 3000 Mk. III which would have been ADO51 but in that form never got...
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the small sports car market against the Austin-Healey Sprite. The Sprite used the drive train of the Austin A30/A35 in a new lightweight body, while...
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Australia with an Austin-Healey in 1958. He left Australia and arrived in England in 1960. He found employment with the Donald Healey Motor Company Ltd...
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C-Series straight-6, 102 bhp (76 kW), twin SU carburettor engine from the Austin-Healey 3000. The suspension was the conventional BMC arrangement of coil springs...
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driver Mike Hawthorn pulled to the right side of the track in front of Austin-Healey driver Lance Macklin and started braking for his pit stop. Macklin swerved...
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The Nash-Healey is a three-seat luxury sports car or grand tourer produced from 1951 to 1954. It was marketed by the Nash-Kelvinator conglomerate in North...
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The Midget was a re-badged and slightly restyled second-generation Austin-Healey Sprite. To the dismay of many enthusiasts, the 1974 MGB was the last...
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Corporation (BMC), and subsequently marketed for civilian use under the Austin, Morris, Leyland, and Moke brands. The name "Mini Moke" combines mini with...
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