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Austin-Healey 100 Six - more space and two additional cylinders for the roadster

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Created on March 30, 2016

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - this is how you imagine a sports car!

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - it just shouts "Come in!"

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - the body rests on a platform frame

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - a roadster of the classic school

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - the lines remained largely unchanged

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - narrow cockpit

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - on the road

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - you can't get much more open than this

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - you sit close to the steering wheel

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - the wheelbase had to be extended by five centimeters for the installation of the six-cylinder engine and the additional seats

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - classic roadster stature

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - with the six-cylinder engine, the roadster also received a new radiator grille

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - only the racing versions normally had side exhausts

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - looks even sportier without bumpers

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - low ground clearance, ex works it was 14 centimeters

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - the classic dashboard with the instruments in the oval

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - Steering wheel with spring spokes

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - started at the push of a button

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - rev counter and speedometer in view

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - round radiator

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - the type lettering - mounted on the right (seen from the front)

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - with front drum brakes ...

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - .... and rear

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - Gas cap

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - the 100 Six was only built for three years

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - the windshield can no longer be folded down

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - flat and low, that's how a sports car should be

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - the two-seater version was only added in 1958

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - rear view

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Austin Healey 100 (1952) - note that the front of the car is still labeled Healey Hundred, but the rear is already labeled Austin-Healey 100

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Austin Healey 100 (1954) - at the London Motor Show with hardtop, in the background the new 100 S, which did not go into production until 1955

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Austin Healey 100 (1954) - at the 1954 Geneva Motor Show, with the roof up

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Austin-Healey 100 (1954) - a flap on the side panels can be lifted to open the door and to make a mark - Geneva Motor Show 1954

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Austin Healey 100 (1955) - View of the four-cylinder BN2, the predecessor of the BN4, at the 1955 London Motor Show

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Austin Healey 100 Six (1956) - Presentation at the Paris Motor Show in 1956

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Austin Healey 100 Six (1957) - at the IAA in Frankfurt in 1957 with hardtop

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Austin Healey 100 Six (1956) - View into the engine compartment

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Austin Healey 100 Six (1957) - a BN4 model with four seats, left-hand drive

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1956) - the six-cylinder succeeded the quaint four-cylinder engine

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Austin Healey 100 Six (1958) - in the brochure the left-hand drive was shown upside down

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Austin Healey 100 Six (1958) - Brochure illustration

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Austin Healey 100 Six (1959) - Two-seater (BN6)

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Austin Healey 100 Six (1959) - Steering wheel and dashboard of a right-hand drive two-seater (BN6)

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Austin-Healey 3000 (1967) - promotion picture, taken shortly before the end of production

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Austin-Healey 3000 (1964) - with a more luxurious interior

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Austin-Healey 100 Six (1958) - the upper air scoop was added for the six-cylinder engine

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Summary

In 1956, Donald Healey presented the Austin-Healey 100 Six, the six-cylinder version of the successful 100 model. More space and more comfort was the thrust, although this was not entirely voluntary, as the British Motor Company no longer wanted to produce the large four-cylinder. Despite the additional weight and somewhat reduced sportiness, the 100 Six was a success and paved the way for the 3000 model. This vehicle report portrays a late Austin-Healey 100 Six and shows it on historical material and in the sales brochure.

This article contains the following chapters

When the engine is no longer produced
Less sporty?
Added performance
Taking the press car to the Mille Miglia
Replaced by the three-liter
Sporty, sporty
Further information

Estimated reading time: 7min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Donald Healey was no stranger when he presented a new sports car at the 1952 London Motor Show. He had already won the Monte Carlo Rally in 1931 and in the post-war years he designed and built small-series sports cars such as the Healey Silverstone and the Nash-Healey with some success. The new sports car, which Donald wanted to present as the Healey Hundred on October 21, 1952, was renamed the Austin-Healey 100 before the show opened, after Healey and Sir Leonard Lord, then head of the British Motor Company, had agreed to work together and Austin wanted to build the new sports car in large numbers in Longbridge.

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