[Healeys] Austin Sports cars

[josef-eckert at t-online.de (josef-eckert at t-online.de)]

BMC never made good money  with the Austin-Healeys. Production numbers too 
small, too much labour intensive.
The Austin Atlantic sold very bad. So the good thing was the left over 
Austin Atlantic engines could get a home.
 
Josef Eckert
K?nigswinter/Germany
 
 
 
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Betreff: Re: [Healeys] Austin Sports cars
Datum: 2018-02-21T08:32:54+0100
Von: "i erbs" <eyera3000 at gmail.com>
An: "Patrick and Caroline Quinn" <p_cquinn at tpg.com.au>
 
 
 
Call as you wish. Still fugly  and Austin needed a home run.

Ira Erbs
Portland, OR

On Feb 20, 2018 5:36 PM, "Patrick & Caroline Quinn" <p_cquinn at tpg.com.au

  Hello

   

  If it wasn?t for cars like the Austin A40 Sports there wouldn?t be an
  Austin-Healey in the numbers that were eventually made.

   

  The A40 Sports were made by Jensen Motors with an all alloy body under
  contract to Austin in the pre-BMC period. Released in late 1950 the A40
  Sports was not marketed as a sports car, but as a touring car.

   

  Without the contacts made through the A40 Sports, Jenson Motors would not
  have been given the contract to build the new Austin-Healey 100.

   

  The A40 Sports was and is quite a spirited performer and I would be very
  pleased to have one in my garage as they formed a very important part of
  the late 1940s and 1950s British automotive history.

   

  Don?t bag what you don?t know.

   

  Hoo Roo

   

  Patrick Quinn

  Blue Mountains, Australia

   

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