2024-12-03 10:04:14 | pauls writes:

Car was at auction 6/24

www.handh.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-73---1960-austin-healey-3000-mki-22/

Auction description:

19th Jun, 2024 13:00

Imperial War Museum | Duxford, Cambridgeshire

Lot 73

1960 Austin Healey 3000 MkI 2+2

Sold for £27,562

Registration No: NSY 228

Chassis No: HBT7/9376

MOT: Exempt

Finished in Colorado Red and White with a Red interior trim

UK RHD example with matching engine and chassis numbers

Offered with a BMHIT Heritage Certificate and a collection of invoices

Full weather equipment

Recorded by the DVLA as first registered in the UK on 21st February 1961, chassis number HBT7/9376 is the ‘BT7’ 2+2 iteration of the Austin-Healey MkI. Believed to be a correct numbers car, with engine number 29D/R/YH14777, a BMIHT certificate shows the Healey to have been configured in right-hand drive for the home market in Colorado Red and Black with Red trim and a Black soft-top. Built 10th -11th May 1960, it was despatched on 24th May 1960 to Lankester's Limited, Surbiton, Surrey (then 're-despatched' 20th February 1961) with overdrive, wire wheels, heater, laminated windscreen and road speed tyres. Little is clear about the ownership history before c.1989, however, a Mr Boxall of Solihull owned the car around this time and oversaw restoration work on the Healey in late 1989 into the summer of 1990. A May 1991 sales invoice is on file from Anthony Coyne Classic Cars, Birmingham regarding the sale of the car to Mr Stenning of Bolton, and in February 1998 Grundy Mack Classic Cars, Huddersfield sold the car to Mr Howard of Rotherham with the mileage of 25,928 recorded on an invoice. H&H Classic Auctions presented the car at auction on 23rd September 1998.

In summary, maintenance work on 'NSY 228' includes: October 1989 - July 1990 £4668.33 spent on restoration work including bodywork, respray, re-chroming and parts and labour; May 1992 brake fettling and a leaf spring by T & W Motors of Bolton; June 1992 (mileage reading 20,207) brake overhaul Barcol Auto Centre, Oldham; June 1993 brake and clutch master cylinder purchased from AH Spares; March 1998 silencer fitted by Swift-Fit, Rotherham. Evidently, the Healey relocated to the Republic of Ireland in May 1999 before coming back to UK ownership in 2015. Offered with a collection of old MOT paperwork and a number of Eire tax and insurance discs, there is a current V5C on file along with many receipts and notes from some of the historical work carried-out.