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Healey 1946-1954 - Gasoline in the blood

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Created in 2011

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Roger Gloor

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Healey Sportsmobile (1949) - appeared clumsier and less pleasing than other Healey variants

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Healey Sportsmobile (1949) - soft top open

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Healey 2.4 Litre (1947) - the fast Competition 2-Seater weighed just 980 kg

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Healey Sportsmobile (1949) - unconventionally shaped

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Healey 2.4 Litre (1947) - the factory demonstrator in Switzerland

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Healey Silverstone (1950) - recorded in the seventies

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Healey Silverstone (1950) - Illustration from a sales brochure

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Healey Sports Convertible (1951) - beautifully designed convertible with 3-liter Alvis engine

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Nash-Healey (1951) - Healey relied on him in the fifties

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Austin-Healey Hundred (1952) - Leonard Lord and Donald Healey with the newly presented sports car

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Jensen-Healey (1973) - a late Mk1 model at an exhibition

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Summary

There were around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of them have disappeared. Healey is one of these vanished brands. Donald Healey had worked with Nash, Austin and Jensen and excelled with his son in a number of rallies and races.

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No other constructor was able to attach his family name to three car brands at the same time: Nash, Austin and Jensen. First, however, the Englishman Donald Mitchell Healey founded his own brand. He originally owned an automobile workshop, raced in rallies and became chief engineer at Triumph in 1934. Before the Second World War, he switched to Humber. A sports model developed by the team during the final phase of the war was rejected by Triumph and therefore adopted by Healey himself: in 1946, the Donald Healey Motor Co., Warwick, presented a four-seater roadster and a sleek, elegant coupé refined in the wind tunnel.

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