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Mississippi USA - 1967 Austin Healey 3000 BJ8 MkIII

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timsgolf

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Hi All,

I am a proud new owner! Completed purchase and delivery of the car about 6 weeks ago. I've wanted one of these vehicles for a very long time, and am only now finally getting one. My goals are not concours or a mint original restoration. It will be a daily driver that I intend to enjoy. In spite of that it will be an ongoing project for me as far as occasional updates and repairs (see a few pics). Glad to be here and be able to pick the collective brain when problems/issues arise!

Tim from Hattiesburg
 

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Tim - welcome to BCF. Your first Little British Car - feels great, doesn't it? And having a classy - and classic - daily driver is what it's all about. Congrats.

How'd you first get interested in these cars?

Tom M.
 
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Thx for the reply Tom! I'm 67 years old now. My interest was born when I was 14. My best friend was the youngest of 4 brothers. His oldest brother was a Corpman in the Marines - this was during Viet Nam. He came home on leave that summer (1969). I lived on my bike during the summertime, and was riding to my friend's house that day. As I pedaled up, there it was! His brother's white 1967 AH 3000 was sitting out front. I dropped my bike in the yard and spent about 20m just walking slowly around that car, scared to get too close for fear I might smudge it. Haha! You know how sometimes you see something like that that just grabs you - kind of overwhelms your senses? That was what that car did to me. I vowed to have one before I died. Well, here we are 53 years later!
 
Thanks Tim. For me, it was an XK140 I saw when I was in high school in the 1960s.

No way could we afford that, so settled on a 1955 Mk VII saloon car for $800. Moon roof, Borg-Warner overdrive, 3.5 doc six. Great car.

And so the addiction began.

Tom M.
 
welcome and for me it was a white 1966 White Barracuda - but I still ended up with british, in no small part because the second was a bugeye. Great car!
 
Glad to have you aboard, Tim. You will find we have a very active AH forum here, so be sure to jump in there with any specific questions.
 
timsgolf said:
Hi All,

I am a proud new owner! Completed purchase and delivery of the car about 6 weeks ago. I've wanted one of these vehicles for a very long time, and am only now finally getting one. My goals are not concours or a mint original restoration. It will be a daily driver that I intend to enjoy. In spite of that it will be an ongoing project for me as far as occasional updates and repairs (see a few pics). Glad to be here and be able to pick the collective brain when problems/issues arise!

Tim from Hattiesburg
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Welcome, Tim! Good looking Healey. We are the same age and I fell in love with Big Healey’s in High School when one of my friends was fortunate enough to acquire one. Fifty years later I finally put one in my garage.
 
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