Austin-Healey models

Austin-Healey was a British sports car brand created in 1952 as a joint venture between the Austin division of the British Motor Corporation and the Donald Healey Motor Company. Leonard Lord represented BMC and Donald Healey his own firm.

The first model was the Austin-Healey 100 (BN1) of 1953–1955, followed by the six-cylinder 100-6 of 1956–1959. The best-known model is the Austin-Healey 3000 of 1959–1967, built at BMC's MG works in Abingdon with bodies by Jensen and powered by the 2,912 cc BMC C-Series straight-six; about 42,900 were made in Mk I, Mk II and Mk III form, and the car won its class in many European rallies. Alongside it came the small Sprite, launched in 1958 and nicknamed "Frogeye" or "Bugeye". BMC replaced the 3000 with the MGC in 1967, and the brand ended in 1972, when the twenty-year agreement between Healey and Austin expired. See also Austin, Jensen and MG.