Austin-Healey
Born from a handshake between Donald Healey and Austin's Leonard Lord at the 1952 London Motor Show, Austin-Healey packed two decades of British sports car romance into just twenty years of production. The Big Healeys — 100 through 3000 — paired rugged straight-four and six-cylinder muscle with some of the prettiest roadster bodywork of the era and a fearsome works rally record, while the diminutive Frogeye Sprite made sports car ownership nearly universal. Production ended in 1972 when the naming agreement lapsed, and the marque's entire output is now firmly in collector hands, with the 100S and works rally cars at the summit.
Austin-Healey 100
The car that started the 'big Healey' story — the 2.66-litre four-cylinder Donald Healey / Austin collaboration built by Jensen from 1953 to 1956, culminating in the 100M and the aluminium-bodied 100S racer.
Austin-Healey Sprite Mk I 'Frogeye'
The 948cc BMC 'chap could keep in his bike shed' sports car — the world's first volume-production sports car built on unitary construction, and the founding member of the Spridget family.
Austin-Healey 3000
The definitive 'big Healey' — BMC's 3-litre inline-six sports car built by Jensen and assembled at Abingdon from 1959 through 1967 across four series and roughly 42,926 cars.