G'day
The car in question was given the name of Austin-Healey Americana by
Geoff Healey and apart from the headlight treatment was powered by the
normal Austin C-series engine. There was also a DHMC X number but as I
am slaving away at work earning a dollar or two I don't have that with
me. If you think of how the Corvette was looking at the time you can
imagine that the DHMC was wanting to see how the 4 headlights would be.
Thankfully it is not the most attractive of cars and therefore never
went into production. I saw it in Rome in 1975 and it has been for sale
for some time in Italy and recently sold through eBay to a US purchaser.
As far as we know there was no Austin-Healey fitted with a V8 engine
from Rolls-Royce or otherwise. I think you might be confusing it with
the Healey 4000 fitted with the 4-litre L head Rolls-Royce six-cylinder.
There were of course a number of Healeys fitted with V8 engines. The
Rolls powered Healey wasn't killed because of the MGC but because when
Rolls-Royce engineers developed a Twin Cam head for it, the lads at
Jaguar were concerned for their E-type.
Hoo Roo
Patrick Quinn
Sydney, Australia
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-healeys@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of i erbs
Sent: Tuesday, 15 November 2005 11:33 AM
To: David Masucci; healeys
Subject: Re: You all HAVE to see this!!!
It had a rolls royce v8. Leyland killed it and went with the MGC
6cyl.....
I Erbs
59 BT7
David Masucci wrote:
> Hi Listers,
>
> I don't know if any of you have seen this. I was brousing the google
> images for Healey photos, and I came across this. I will keep my
> opinions to myself. I just thought you all might like to see this
> "Healey".
>
> http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.autospeak.it/images/
> cars/austin_healey_230_2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.autospeak.it/pag_1.h
> tm&h=262&w=346&sz=20&tbnid=XmDF3J_FAM4J:&tbnh=87&tbnw=116&hl=en&start=
> 421&prev=/images%3Fq%3Daustin%2Bhealey%26start%3D420%26svnum%3D10%26hl
> %3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN
>
>
> Dave
>
> 64 BJ8
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