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steveg said:
Wonder what he's backing into. Seat is too thick for a BJ7 but a similar door handle. Maybe an XK150.
Did she smoke Gauloises? Enquiring minds want to know.
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Isn't that a Healey arrow on the front fender-???
 
GROWING UP in a village not far from Glasgow, Jackie Stewart — who won three Formula One world championships and was nicknamed the Flying Scot —struggled at school due to dyslexia. He left to work in his father’s garage, studying at night to become a mechanic, and also competed for Scotland in shooting.
By the age of 17, he’d saved up enough money in tips (“for manning the pumps and fixing punctures”) to buy a new Austin A30: “It was spruce green; ASA 500 was the registration number. It cost £375. I picked seat covers made in Stewart tartan. I was a right poseur with that car.”
He progressed from that to an Austin-Healey Sprite. “My first sporty car — a little car with a bubble on the bonnet,” he says. “It never won a beauty contest, but it was a big deal for me then.”

https://www.driving.co.uk/news/me-a...-his-first-car-his-struggle-into-motor-sport/
 
Another shot of Clint Eastwood:

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On the left is Clint's first wife, Maggie Johnson. From the worried expression on her face, I suspect the lady to the far left is Maggie's mom.
 
HealeyRick said:
Alan JACKSON - "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere"

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1966 Austin Healey 3000 MKIII

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This car was restored in 2005 for country singer Alan Jackson. He ordered a 1956 100-M from us, so he is selling this one.
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https://www.dreamsonwheels.com/images/Healeys/1966bj8restore/index.html Sold for $68,200 at 2007 Christies.
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Here's another Alan Jackson car on eBay. [FONT=&quot]HBJ8L/40026 with AC [/FONT]https://www.ebay.com/itm/Austin-Healey-3000-BJ8-MKIII-/302038632519?forcerrptr=true&hash=item4652e7c847%3Ag%3Aur0AAOSwWfFXj~6Q&item=302038632519




HBJ8L/40026
 
HealeyRick said:
Here's another Alan Jackson car on eBay. HBJ8L/40026 with AC HBJ8L/40026
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Alan Jackson never actually owned 40026. BMC Classics in New Smyrna Beach, FL owned it, having purchased it from eBay in August 2005 in very rough condition. They were intending to restore it for Jackson but he decided instead to go for a Hundred. He did own 32017 (the blue car in the photo above) for about two years. 32017 now has the engine from 30489 and is owned by someone in New York City. 40026 went to Texas and recently was sold back to Georgia. The eBay ad for 40026 said it has "factory air", but it does not. It has A/C, but not from the factory.
 

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BJ8Healeys said:
Alan Jackson never actually owned 40026.
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Thanks for clearing that up, Steve. Re-reading the ad, it says the restoration was "... commissioned by country singer Alan Jackson" which most folks would take to mean he owned it. Not sure how much celebrity ownership affects value anyway, although I wouldn't mind owning Jackie Cooper's 100S!
 
Some restorers purchase a car and then solicit someone to pay for its restoration, after which they own it. Alan Jackson may have had an understanding with BMC Classics that he would pay for the restoration of 40026, but then changed his mind before the resto got started. I wouldn't consider him an actual owner unless he took delivery. Although it really shouldn't matter as far as the value of a car whether a celebrity owned it, apparently it does, since the big auctions always make a point of stating that a car is "ex-Alan Jackson" or "ex-Steve McQueen", etc. if that is the case.
 
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HealeyRick said:
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #FF0000">Bruce JENNER</span></span> -almost

"I thought my first car was going to be an Austin-Healey Sprite, but I have a tragic story relating to that car. My dad taught me how to drive in Tarrytown, New York , in a grocery store parking lot.
I was 15, turning 15, and he had a little Austin-Healey "bugeye" Sprite. It was red with white stripes. And it was the coolest little car; a convertible. It was a four speed, so he taught me how to drive a stick shift down in the parking lot. That was probably 3 or 4 months before I got my license. Of course I snuck it out a few times when he wasn't around. We lived in an apartment complex and I drove it around the complex and never got caught. My sister got caught because she bumped another car, but that's another story.The day I got my license, my dad sold the car." My First Car
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Caitlyn's finally getting that bugeye:

 
I don't think Alan Jackson ever owned the Healey Blue car with the Florida license plate shown in the photo above. It's HBJ8L/38565. Having seen it myself at a car show in Flat Rock, NC several years ago, I know that both the VIN and the body plates are reproductions, with the body plate having a non-existent "batch" number. The BJ8 Registry has the continuous record of the car as it changed hands, from the current owner who bought it in October 2008 from a dealer in North Carolina, back through the Brandners at BMC Classics - twice (they offered it for sale on eBay in 2007, having bought it back from the Florida owner that the license plate belonged to). They had originally sold it to that owner in August 2006. Although Mr. Brandner told me of Alan Jackson's involvement in BJ8s 32017 and 40026 (neither of which he actually owned) and the 100M, he never said anything about 38565 being restored for Jackson.
 
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How do you suppose he gets those big Ugg boots into the footwells? I've got a few pairs of shoes that not Healey compatible; I've actually had to go back in the house and switch shoes after attempting to pull out of the garage (and I'm only an 8-1/2 or 9, depending).
 
If I should ever become a celebrity will I make it into this thread or must one be a celebrity before buying the Healey in order to qualify?
 
Michael Oritt said:
If I should ever become a celebrity will I make it into this thread or must one be a celebrity before buying the Healey in order to qualify?
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Membership is very fluid, depending on what I find online and what I feel like typing up. You should really work on becoming a celebrity, though, because I saw on Chasing Classic Cars last week that celebrity ownership can add 10% value to a car's worth
 
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