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    OT - For the Austin Healey fans

    Not BMW but I know there are a few owners/appreciators here.

    This is is a very nice example I saw this weekend.

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    Imagine that Fiat Multiplas with 5 or 6 adults on board, and only 600cc (0.6 litre) to propel them...

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    Took this photo just last Friday. Apparently Lurch drives a big Healey.

    BTW, this thing was pristine, with the classic red/white 2-tone and knockoffs. Guy cruised up the freeway at 75 too, despite the obvious wind in the hair effect from being just a tad too tall :-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by JoshS View Post
    Took this photo just last Friday. Apparently Lurch drives a big Healey.

    BTW, this thing was pristine, with the classic red/white 2-tone and knockoffs. Guy cruised up the freeway at 75 too, despite the obvious wind in the hair effect from being just a tad too tall :-)

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    That's a two-seater like mine (most were 2+2) but it's a 3000 MKI, whereas the 100/6 (like mine) only has the one Austin-Healey badge on the trunk. The Healey in MRFAST's post is a very early 3000 MKIII with rollup windows, that within months would be adorned with separate amber turn signals instead of the combined turn/park lights of that one.

    Now you know as much about Healeys as I do...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Randy Forbes View Post
    That's a two-seater like mine (most were 2+2) but it's a 3000 MKI, whereas the 100/6 (like mine) only has the one Austin-Healey badge on the trunk.
    Yeah, but what's strange is that it had a '56 " Year Of Manufacture" plate on it (a cool thing CA allows for old cars), which means that the DMV thinks it is a '56. So maybe it's actually a 100-6 with a 3000 trunk lid. Which would be weird for a car that's clearly been restored.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Randy Forbes View Post


    Imagine that Fiat Multiplas with 5 or 6 adults on board, and only 600cc (0.6 litre) to propel them...
    Imagine this with 9 people on board. Found in same garage.

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    Here's another couple of the Fiat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Randy Forbes View Post
    That's a two-seater like mine (most were 2+2) but it's a 3000 MKI, whereas the 100/6 (like mine) only has the one Austin-Healey badge on the trunk. The Healey in MRFAST's post is a very early 3000 MKIII with rollup windows, that within months would be adorned with separate amber turn signals instead of the combined turn/park lights of that one.

    Now you know as much about Healeys as I do...

    What he said. Beautiful lines that the Z3 took on years later. That's why a few of us ex and present Healey guys love the Z3.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JoshS View Post
    Yeah, but what's strange is that it had a '56 " Year Of Manufacture" plate on it (a cool thing CA allows for old cars), which means that the DMV thinks it is a '56. So maybe it's actually a 100-6 with a 3000 trunk lid. Which would be weird for a car that's clearly been restored.



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    Standard-issue only in California comment: still doesn't compute; the 2-seater was a mid '58 release. My own Healey, California titled as a '57 since before I bought it in San Francisco circa 1978, was actually built May 14th-15th, 1958. Of course I didn't find this out until 6-1/2 years after I bought it, so anything's possible__in California!


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    Like Randy's, mine was built in June 1959 and sold in San Francisco as a leftover in 1960 and was registered as a 1960. Things were a little more loose back then.
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    Austin Healey in New Zealand

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    Had a few Healey's here in New Zealand left to right
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    Always preferred driving a Healey with the hardtop in place seemed to respond to the point and squirt a lot better. Of course Koni's at four corners were a big help too.
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