Automotive

Picture credits: Morris and Welford

This looks super.  I love the colors too.

A friend used to own a Healey 3000 MkIII. IIRC 3 litre straight six, and 150hp. This looks like a MkII which had 140hp, and no power steering. They have heavy clutches too. Driving in town was like doing a weights session in the gym.

It's a fantastic British sports car from a series called the 100-6 & 3000, with big heavy 6-cyl engine in front and low flexy body with exhaust that scrapes and doors that flew open on bumpy roads or aggressive turns.




I just saw a Seinfeld episode where he took Ricky Gervais around in a 3000. Check it out  

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The 3000 made great rally cars, somehow.

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I don't know about the doors flinging open, but heavy engine, flexible chassis, impractical overhangs and long tails scraping... Sounds very British, all passion, no practicality to me. I don't have any personal experience, but I'm told the British were even more passionate than the Italians when it came to certain cars.

....an Austin 3 Litre. I believe the same engine as the Healey 3000. Amazing torque!! They also shoe horned the engine into an MGB. Called it the MGC. Brute of a car!!. Best, John.

It's the only time I've ever seen one with the leopard-skin top and tonneau. I assume they were aftermarket, probably from J.C. Whitney if you're familiar with the company. They were notorious for bazaar aftermarket accessories.

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Quality and reliability.

But as I mature, more and more they are growing on me.

Thanks for the beautiful pics.

TM

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even more classical in nu view

Back in 1974, just before my senior year in college, I bought a 1962 Austin Healey 3000, similar to this one with the same paint scheme.  I grew up across the street from a hospital and for years, a doctor parked his Healey in front of our house.  I loved the look of the car and vowed as soon as I could, I would have one too.  When I bought the car, it needed some work but soon it was on the road and I was loving it.  The ultimate chick magnet.  Unfortunately, British Leland had gone belly up and it was impossible to find parts for the car.  I knew where every wrecked AH was within a 100 mile radius.  More than once I was stranded from various mechanical problems.  It seemed every time I drove the car, I had to work on it in order to drive it again.  The last straw was the shaft that drove the points broke.  I spent an afternoon removing one from a wreck at a local junk yard, losing more than a pint of blood to the mosquitos.  I put an add in the paper and a guy showed up wanting the car for his wife.  When he towed it away, I didn't look back.  I always thought I was paying for the sins of previous owners who had neglected the car but having talked with many AH owners over the years, my experience was not atypical.  Beautiful car but pretty unreliable.  

is.. they don't run.

But it's great looking!

Looks great!