Austin Healey

The 1953 Austin-Healey 100 and 3000 were among the first of the cars made by the company of the same name. Donald Healey wanted to increase production volume for his budding British car-building concern in the early Fifties, so he turned to a reasonably priced sports car as the vehicle for this objective. He wound up with a car that was a winner on both sides of the Atlantic. (more…)

The Austin-Healey Sprite was a small open sports car designed by Donald Healey.Its release was announced by British Motor Corporation (BMC) in 1958. It was a small, low cost sports car designed to fill the hole in the market left by the small pre-war Austin Seven sports cars. The car was designed by the Healey Motor Company within the bounds of their partnership with BMC. It first went on sale at a price of £669. (more…)

The 1950 's  Donald Healey introduced a 4-cylinder 2.6 litre Austin A90 Atlantic engined two-seater sports car named the Hundred at the October 1952 Motor Show at Earls Court in London. (more…)