How old are Austin Healey owners?

[healeynut]

This dotplot would suggest that the 18 year old has at least a good 60 years of big healey enjoyment in front of him! I wonder if you will be able to still buy gas then, or will our cars be running on corn whiskey??!!

 

[RandallRK]

I have to put in my 2 cents...

or 28 years.


RK

 

[SHG]

Well don’t feel bad. I usually can’t remember my age until someone asks. Then I have to think about it for a couple seconds before answering.

I answer right away. Then my wife tells me I'm wrong. Again.

Heard this joke on TV the other day: If a man stands in the forest and his wife isn't there, is he still wrong?

 

[Mac]

Bought my first Healey when I was 18 in 1966. It was a 1955. I put a 283 V-b in it but used the Healey transmission with an adapter. Not a great combination but heck I was 18, what did I know? A few years later, a 1959 Healey, then a TR3, a TR4 which takes me up to abut age 40. Then I was into Corvettes for a few years, then a 63 Healey at about age 55 and today at the ripe ole age of 60 I own a Porche and a 1955 Jaguar XK 140 OTS. My favorite car has always been the Austin Healey. Mac

 

[ncbugeye]

59.

Promised I'd buy myself a Bugeye when I was 18, in 1966, in my first year of University.

Finally bought one last year, only 40 years late.

 

[FrankH]

60

 

[bob hughes]

59.

Promised I'd buy myself a Bugeye when I was 18, in 1966, in my first year of University.

Finally bought one last year, only 40 years late.

Better late than never though

 

[kcbugeye1275]

We are all kids.

 

[peteatgr]

59. I bought my '67 BJ8 in 1974 just after coming home from a US Navy WestPac cruise because my boss in the squadron drove a '65 BJ8. I've now driven it over 50,000 miles.

I don't know about other youngsters but I'm starting to get concerned about how my 18 year old son looks at me when we drive or talk Healey's. He knows what his plans are for the car that's for sure.

Um

 

[DanZ_BT7]

33 years of age and a recent owner of a bt7 in need of restoration.

 

[tontonene]

59...

 

[judow]

And who said the "Over 40" Generation didn't want to tell their age. This thread has gotten more response and honesty than a would be Social Security collector.

Just wondering, is this the most responded to thread ever on the forum?

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[Angus]

54 have had mine for 4yrs. and still working on it.Should have painted it and drove it!My daily summer driver is a 72,B.

 

[spartan0199]

107 responses

Average = 53.5
Median = 54.0
Standard Deviation = 10.7

 

[Keoke]

Yes that is interesting. However, it is also noted that irregardless of the topic, responses on the forum rarely exceed 5% of the viewers. Including this one.--Keoke

 

[nevets]

viewers or views?

 

[hama61]

When I saw a Healey for the first time (at that time I didn't had the slightest idea that it was an Austin Healey) I just turned 18 (1979) there were not that many in the Netherlands. The interest went up and down mostly down with the prices but decided to look for one four years ago and had found soon after a nice driver BN 4 Healey blue OEW at that time I was 43 at the beginning of 2007 a bought a BN 7 restration project of 2-3 many more years

 

[HEALEYJAG]

Just had my 51st Birthday on New Years eve.

Bought my first Healey at 25....

 

[1960AH_Pops]

Got it when my dad passed away, I was 26 and am now 27.

 

[johnea]

I bought my BN6 when I was 35, in 1989.
John