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On task to watch all Audrey Hepburn movies! Watched Sabrina (1954). Had a Nash-Healey (~506 built). Won its class @ LeMans in 1952 & finished 3rd behind the M-B 300 SLs. Healey against the M-B factory team & managed a 3rd place...Stupendous!!!
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The same man who sold my dad our BN2/100M had one for sale for $35K. Dad didn't care for the 'headlights-in-the-grill' Nash look so he passed on that (I prefer the early Pinanfarina design as well). Sometimes, though, I wish we'd bought it and thrown a tarp on it for 30 years. We did get a smokin' deal on the BN2, though. Some consider the first one as "America's First Sports Car" as it beat the 'Vette by a year or so (only the engine was American, but ...).

The USPS issued a stamp collection with the later N-H on one (Dad had a black T-Bird like the one in the collection).
 

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I remember watching the series--barely--but I don't remember the N-H (not that I'd know what it was). I do remember Maxwell Smart's Alpine (Tiger?) and there was a Healey featured in one of the Twilight Zone episodes.
 
It's been at least ten years since I've heard anything about it but there was a guy in the Baltimore burbs named Leonard McGrady who had a barnful of them--supposedly around 80 As I remember from pictures they appeared to have been "put away" with no restoration, etc. and they were not for sale nor parting out, nor would he allow tours.

There's a fellow named Leonard McCue I see occasionally at race events who drives a nicely-presented Nash-Healey. It looks more like he is touring than racing but he appears to be having fun. To each his own....
 
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