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I've had a long-standing unhealthy attraction to Jamaicans and the gullwing version Banshee/Caribe. Although "Stunflyr" on this forum has me beat in the crazy department by owning two of them. Credit for the design of the Jamaican goes to Peter Egan's (R&T "Side Glances") friend Chris Beebe and was loosely based on the Lamborghini Miura. Fiberfab stoked our dreams with advertising featuring hot babes and the promise of easily converting our rusted out British sportscar into a low cost supercar. Hard to tell whether the babes or cheap supercars were more unattainable. I actually bought a project Healey Jamaican that had been set up for a 396 Chevy off eBay from California. It never arrived and I lost some money on the deal, but probably not as much as if I had actually been saddled with the car. The eBay seller's claim they only made 5 of these for Healeys is pure BS, they made plenty. Maybe he's thinking about the number of them that were actually completed as more seem to have ended up as unfinished projects. It's interesting to compare these old cars to today's kit cars, like the Factory Five cars where d.i.y. ing your own car is a reasonable proposition. I also wondered about the seller's claims that one sold for $56k, but that's actually true: https://www.sportscarmarket.com/english/1959-austin-healey-100-6-jamaican Wayne Carini should have been so lucky with his auction results.
 
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