Here's a page with some good pics as it was sold a couple of years ago:
http://www.rmauctions.com/lots/lot.cfm?lot_id=668582
It's also got a nice spread the "The Healey Book"
Here's info on a 2013 trip to Monterrey with the car looking as it did back in
the day when it still had the hood scoop and the distinctive middle roll bar:
http://stevemckelvie.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/1960-canadian-drivers-champions
hip-winning-austin-healey-to-go-to-monterey/
On Dec 29, 2013, at 10:01 AM, Michael Salter wrote:
> Interestingly that same car was, many years ago, brought into my shop for
> some tidy up work.
> It was a very interesting car having all aluminium body panels and a bonnet
> with no scoop. I understand that it was built by Austin of Canada for Grant
> Clark to race.
> My customer sold the car to a collector in the U.S. and I didn't hear
> anything more about it until a couple of years back when I was contacted by
> a well known local collector who wanted me to come and advise him on what
> he should do with the ex Grant Clark Healey that he had recently purchased
> from R & M Auctions for whom he worked.
> I went to see the car and was sorry to see that it had been extensively
> modified with all the latest competition modifications thus loosing most of
> its historic value.
> Fortunately all the removed parts had been retained and the current owner
> who, many years previously had watched the same car race very successfully
> at various venues, was entertaining the idea of restoring the 3000 to its
> original competition condition.
> Sadly the project never went ahead as he sold the car and I have now lost
> track of it again.
>
> Michael S
> BN1 #174
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:39 AM, J. Scott Morris
<jstmorris@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> Yesterday I emailed the 'Healey List' about Grant Clark racing a Healey
>> 3000
>> in which he crashed at Mosport in 1961.B In that email I included a link
>> to a
>> video of racing at Mosport in the early sixties in which the wrecked car
>> was
>> shown a few times..
>>
>> Evidently the original poster didnb t have permission from Rupert Lloyd
>> Thomas, who created the digital video, to share the video and therefore it
>> was
>> removed and obviously my link is now useless.B If the video is reposted,
I
>> will forward the link to the 'Healey List'.
>>
>> Sorry about all this.B But enjoy the season and Happy New Year to all.B
>> And
>> remember, keep smiling. :-)
>>
>> --Scott Morris; Simcoe, Ontario, CanadaB B B B B - Keep Smiling, Murphy
>> Lives
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