Austin-Healey

Overview

The Donald Healey Motor Company displayed a new prototype sportscar at the 1952 London Motorshow, this pretty car attracted the attentions of the mighty Austin Motor Company, the rest is history...

The Austin-Healey provided an instant contender for Austin to enter the ever growing UK sportscar market with, competing with rivals such as the Triumph TR2 and MGTF. Throughout the 50's Austin continued to develop the original concept as well as introducing a smaller car, the Sprite.

By the mid-60's BMC (Austin and Morris had merged in 1952 to form BMC shortly after the original deal with Donald Healey) had taken the decision to rationalise its range and so in 1968 the Austin-Healey name was dropped in favour of the more popular MG brand.

Models produced by Austin-Healey

PictureModelProduced
100
100 1953-1956
100-6
100-6 1956-1959
100/4
100/4 1953-1956
  100/4M 1955-1956
100/4S
100/4S 1954-1956
100S
100S 1954-1956
3000 Mk I
3000 Mk I 1959-1961
3000 Mk II
3000 Mk II 1961-1963
3000 Mk III
3000 Mk III 1964-1968
Sprite Mk I (Frogeye)
Sprite Mk I (Frogeye) 1958-1961
Sprite Mk II
Sprite Mk II 1961-1964
Sprite Mk III
Sprite Mk III 1964-1966
Sprite Mk IV
Sprite Mk IV 1966-1969
Sprite Mk V
Sprite Mk V 1969-1971