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Most Famous or Infamous Healey to be Auctioned

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Wow, thought it might hit 7 figures but $1,365,000 using $1.62 /pound. That is unreal. Guess Bill Erickson will need to add a post script to his article about the 100S in the just received Healey Marque - great article by the way Bill !
Regards,
Mike
 
Any predictions on what a proper restoration will cost them.......
The total figure my stand for a while with this one.
 
We were discussing the sale at a club event a couple of weeks ago, one of the group is a restorer and he suggested ÂŁ100-150,000. I'm not sure why it's so much tbh.

I'm not sure that it's a good thing to restore it, when restored it'll look just like lots of other A-Healeys with perfect paintwork and panel gaps instead of being the time warp thing that it is now.

Even then, it isn't exactly the car that was at LeMans as it must have needed a big rebuild after the acccident and then who knows what was replaced when it was raced in the 60s, but there's probably more 1955 parts in it than there are in most 1955 cars!
 
bighealeysource said:
Wow, thought it might hit 7 figures but $1,365,000 using $1.62 /pound. That is unreal. Guess Bill Erickson will need to add a post script to his article about the 100S in the just received Healey Marque - great article by the way Bill !
Regards,
Mike
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Thanks Mike. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
 
john_j said:
We were discussing the sale at a club event a couple of weeks ago, one of the group is a restorer and he suggested ÂŁ100-150,000. I'm not sure why it's so much tbh.

I'm not sure that it's a good thing to restore it, when restored it'll look just like lots of other A-Healeys with perfect paintwork and panel gaps instead of being the time warp thing that it is now.

Even then, it isn't exactly the car that was at LeMans as it must have needed a big rebuild after the acccident and then who knows what was replaced when it was raced in the 60s, but there's probably more 1955 parts in it than there are in most 1955 cars!
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I agree; it should pretty much be left alone and kept for the artifact that it is.

Would be nice to maintain it in running condition, for the benefit of getting it on/off trailers going to shows, but I can't envision it seeing much other use.

Big money, for sure, but not surprising (to me) at all.
 
I would restore it back to its 1955 LeMans livery. I do not know why. I do not know if that would increase or decrease its value. It is just what my gut tells me to do.
 
Legal Bill said:
I would restore it back to its 1955 LeMans livery. I do not know why. I do not know if that would increase or decrease its value. It is just what my gut tells me to do.
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Dido here.....Maybe it's the color and number placement that catches me. Would love to see it looking factory prepped again.
 
This is one of the best looking Healey pic I've seen. Thx,

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Healey_Z said:
This is one of the best looking Healey pic I've seen.
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(But just for the record, that's not NOJ393 that just sold at auction. That's OON440 which is one the following year's Special Test Cars, and was in the Arthur Carter collection until a few years ago. But yes, it is a very nice pic :yesnod: )
 
Lovely pic, I like the lighter green they used too, they look very very nice in that color.

However, I agree it should be kept as is.

I visited an open house at the Healey Werks in Northwest Iowa a few years ago, there were two Hundred S's there. Once was a total restoration one was a rough old warrior like NOJ393, guess which car people were crowded around looking at? Being able to perhaps see where the repairs were made after the crash, and whatever other aspects of the cars history it may reveal would be much more interesting to me than seeing it stripped down and rebuilt to as new specification but never exactly like it was when it was new condition
 
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