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Subject: [Healeys] Austin Sports cars
From: p_cquinn at tpg.com.au (Patrick & Caroline Quinn)
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 12:34:32 +1100
References: <CABXhz8_sH4crOzoheUM=0WYs81FttraRGN3S65gn86pXPHh-5w@mail.gmail.com>
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

 

From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of i erbs
Sent: Wednesday, 21 February 2018 6:24 AM
To: Ahealey help
Subject: [Healeys] Austin Sports cars

 

In case you ever wonder why Leonard Lord wanted the Healey 100. Take a look at 
Austin's 52 sports car 

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Ira Erbs

Portland,OR

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          BT7 engine and disk brakes

 

 

1967 MGB   MG 
<http://www.britishcarspecialists.com/assets/images/MG_emblem.jpg> 

 

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. Mario Andretti

Please excuse random auto corrects and misspelled words

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