FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE IN A 1966 AUSTIN-HEALEY 3000
I have always loved the Austin-Healey 3000. It's such a quintessential sports car. There’s nothing really like it: that thunderous exhaust note, the physical & gutsy Healey engine. Is there another car that has such a throaty, growling sound? One with such tremendously sexy power?
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The entire Austin-Healey range hits an extremely uplifting nerve: it’s a marque of British motoring panache, with a place of honor in UK driving history. Donald Healey himself had been a First World War pilot who loved the very idea of cars. In 1931 he won the Monte Carlo rally, driving an Invicta. He proceeded to design cars for Riley and Triumph before moving on to the Austin-Healey 100/4 in 1952.
Without even having sat in one, I grew up feeling that Austin-Healey cars were so beautifully stylish in a kind of infinitely timeless way: utterly modern, and also utterly futuristic, but at the same time they looked like cars that could have come from the 1930s, hurtling through Italian Alpine passes or making mincemeat of the vast flat distances of the Great Plains.
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The Austin-Healey 3000 was built from 1959 until 1967. The car’s bodywork was made by Jensen Motors and the vehicles were assembled at British Motor Corporation’s MG Works in Abingdon in Oxfordshire, alongside the corporation’s MG models.
At the moment at Beverly Hills Car Club we are presenting a wonderful 1966 Austin-Healey 3000 BJ8 Convertible, in classic British Racing Green complemented with a black interior.
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Whichever model, Austin-Healeys are such fantastic cars to take for a cruise along the California coast – with the top down! When they get going these Austin-Healeys really get motoring - they are fast!
I’ve sold over 800 Austin-Healeys, so we must be doing something right!
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- Alex Manos, Owner - Beverly Hills Car Club
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