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The worst auto racing crash in history involved a Healey, 1955 LeMans.
 
Good pic Dougie- don't think I'd seen that particular image before. Most have probably seen this before, but here's a link to the video of that fateful crash.

Le Mans 1955
 
Here are a couple of rare ones that I particularly like. I don't know much about them other than that the car is a 100S. If you know more about them, please let me know.
 

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Wow great pics Reid..I have never seen those 100S images before. The top photo looks like the car was possibly a darker shade of Florida Green, or perhaps the color is distorted and it was repainted Healey blue? I wonder where that car, or some of it's pieces, are now?
Austin
 
Editor_Reid said:
Here are a couple of rare ones that I particularly like. I don't know much about them other than that the car is a 100S. If you know more about them, please let me know.
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Having spoken with a 100S guru, he says

<span style="font-style: italic">There were no cars originally supplied in this colour from the factory, so I can only guess which car it is from the other clues in the photo. The registration number is a Swedish one, there were only 2 cars supplied to Sweden, of which only one survives. I cannot identify the track/pits or any of the people in the photograph, so it is all speculation! These are the details of the two 100S’s that were supplied to Sweden:


AHS3705 – Built April 1955 / shipped to AB Hans Osterman, Sweden / White over Lobelia with blue interior / Short 3.66 differential and modified first gear / first owner: Arne Lindbera / destroyed in 1950’s after a racing accident

AHS3910 – Built July 1955 / shipped to AB Hans Osterman, Sweden / White over Lobelia with blue interior / modified first gear / first owner: Bo Frick / currently in Australia – shipped in 1968 / last 100S production car built with many works modifications
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Reid -

There was a great article a few years back in the AHC-USA Magazine which profiled this driver/owner and his 100-S. I'm still looking for the issue and if I find it I'll post more info.
 
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The registration number is a Swedish one
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Interesting. I had thought that the registration was French. Perhaps I was influenced by the berets worn by the pit crew.

Berets are pretty rare in Sweden. Is your guru sure, really sure, about that being a Swedish registration?

The structures look like those used at Sebring in the era, but I've never seen other pics of a turquoise 100S racing there.

Note also what appears to be another Healey - perhaps even another 100S? - behind.

Someone will know!
 
Re: Editor_Reid post about two Healey 100S photos
"Here are a couple of rare ones that I particularly like. I don't know much about them other than that the car is a 100S. If you know more about them, please let me know."
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Hello Reid; I believe both pictures are of Gordon MacPherson with AHS 3902. Check out page 55 of 'Big Healeys In Competition by John Baggott. Also see '100S Rescued From Zimbabwe' By John Wheatley published in 'Healey Highlights', October 1986.

--Scott Morris
 
Great photos Austin, really enjoyed seeing them. I have a lot of old car magazines from the 40's and 50's I'll have to look to see if there are any Healeys. Meanwhile, I do have one old photo of me and my '59 Corvette. It was my 3rd car owned.
 

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Editor_Reid said:
Here are a couple of rare ones that I particularly like. I don't know much about them other than that the car is a 100S. If you know more about them, please let me know.
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This is AHS 3902 when owned by Gordon MacPherson in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe now).

Racing rewards for a Rhodesian Ridgeback: Gordon MacPherson raced 100S AHS 3902 with much success in southern Rhodesia. The car was exported new to Ronil Motors in Tanzania. From 1957 to 1960, starting some 75 events, MacPherson finished in the top three 62 times, winning 18 of them! After it flipped end over end, the car sat idle for the next 25 years only partially repaired. In 1985, Keith Clapham bought it and shipped it back to England, putting it back on the road ten years later after an extensive restoration. (copied from: Overdrive, Official Newsletter of the Central Indiana Austin Healey Club, June 2006)​
 
Thanks for the "Rest of the story", very interesting.
 
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