Interesting question as also brought up by the auction house is if you owned
this car, to what period would you restore this car if you did? Would it be
brought back to the original 1953 or the 1955 iteration? Nice problem to have
if you were made of money...
Mike Brouillette
59 Bt7
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Felts" <tomfelts@windstream.net>
To: "Jose Vicente Vargas" <jvvmusme@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Healey List" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 9:52:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Lot No: 433
The only reason I asked was that this appeared to be a "prototype" leading to
the 100S--------but not "technically" one of the 52 100S's.
It was listed as "1953-55 Austin-Healey Special Test Car/100S Prototype
Sports-", and they said "As part of his original Austin-Healey Hundred
production agreement with Leonard Lord of the British Motor Corporation,
specialist constructor Donald Healey had undertaken to produce four Special
Test Cars for racing and record breaking"
So, it is a historic and very valuable car, but my question was --was it truly
one of THE 52 (I believe) 100S models that we hear so much about.
No problem either way--it is a valuable car.
tom,
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