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Tantalizingly, Rolls-Royce had evolved a twin-cam head for the engine, giving around bhp in triple-SU form, and with the potential for an easy bhp. If this engine could be winkled into the Healey, as was envisaged, Jaguar would be severely embarrassed!

So in the Healey team in Warwick set about sawing a British Racing Green shell in two and adding a six-inch fillet down the middle to give the extra interior width supposedly required by the Americans, and to suit the 6 in wider 4-Litre R rear axle to he used.

To eliminate the 's scuttle shake the glass fibre lift-out transmission tunnel Was replaced by a steel unit welded to the front and rear bulkheads. The chassis was then re-made to accommodate the widened body and the 4-litre engine, and a former test-bed Vanden Plas engine fitted, in conjunction with its Borg- Warner Model 8 automatic transmission. Geoffrey Healey reckons this sapped the engine of about 15 bhp, but estimates that this was more than made up for by the 's more efficient exhaust system.

The car was given a standard grille in a narrowed aperture in the newly-widened shroud, and there was a special aluminum Bonnet with a power bulge. Inside there was a black-crackle dash, because of fears that US Iegislation would outlaw the 's wooden panels, and the seats were to a special pattern, better upholstered and with more rated backs, there were more elaborate door trims, too, with pleated cappings and hockey-stick armrests.

Crucially a collapsible steering column was fitted, with two universal joints, and this brought the steering wheel forward, giving a much better driving position and allowing an extra inch of legroom for the rear child seats.

John Chatham brought along to our test day a superbly original 40,miles-from-new Mklll. Comparing it with the was a fascinating exercise. The first thing to strike one was the unexpected refinement of the - although that deliciously wicked Big Healey cackle as the smooth but potent engine reached the yellow line soon reminded one this was a real sports car. The steering was nicely fluid and not heavy.

Adhesion was limited-fun for tail-out motoring , but potentially a handful owing to the extreme closeness of the driver to the wheel. The ride, interestingly, seemed surprisingly soft - a result of the revised suspension of the last s, says John.

The was a completely different beast. The engine never felt sporting, but, equally, never lost its smoothness and composure. Only at high revs was there a hint of naughtiness in the exhaust note The transmission lets the car down driven as an auto seemed to change up too early, rubbing the car of any snap, yet at cruising speeds it appeared too low-geared. Joe and Peter recently installed an ex-Jaguar Borg-Warner Model 12 'box, but at the time of our test had not fitted the kick down mechanism.

With this reinstated, and with a planned raising of the final drive ratio the car should he improved. The ride certainly seemed surprisingly supple, and all the while the was refreshingly absent. The steering did appear a touch vague, but more of a problem in comfortably positioning the car was that I was too far from the wheel and the pedals, as the car had been set up for the somewhat taller Coxes.

You wouldn't get that on a ! With its lazy engine and transmission, and its noticeable extra width, the came across as more of a grand tourer than a sports car. With manual transmission and that twin-cam engine, though, it would have been quite a vehicle. It was amazingly easy to cut the body and put six inches in; the chassis was a bit more complicated, but you really just position the engine and then build the frame around it.

We tried various things and ended up with the bulge. We never liked that grille on the 's bonnet, and it didn't let any air in anyway - it tended only to let it out. On standard springs and dampers, the car had better ride and handling than its parent, and the performance was impressive - although the top speed, at mph, was much the same as on the The Healeys took the car to BMC's 'Kremlin' headquarters in Longbridge, and management were so taken with the car that in February they ordered it to be productionized immediately, for launch in January The prototype was given the Austin designation ADO 24 and MG's Syd Enever brought in to oversee the car's further development In the meantime, Healey were instructed to build six pre-production cars - two with automatic transmission, two with the four-speed Jaguar E-Type manual 'box and two with a Jaguar overdrive 'box.

And then, in April , with two cars-one manual, the other manual-plus-overdrive- nearing completion, BMC reduced its requirement for pre-production cars to just these two. Not long after. The Healeys were gratified to find that their work was received with rave reviews and a production order was placed for launch early the next year.

Before that could happen, six pre-production cars were ordered — a pair for each of three transmissions; the Borg-Warner Automatic, the Jaguar 4-speed manual and the same unit fitted with overdrive. Austin identified these cars with the project number ADO24 and Syd Enever was tasked with supervision of the job. The modified chassis for these development mules were produced by John Thompson Motor Pressings with the bodies manufactured by long time supplier Jensen.

The aluminum hood replaced the previous vent with this power bulge. Just months later, in April , as two mules were almost finished one with the manual and the other with the standard overdrive transmission management ordered that no further prototypes would be necessary.

Without further explanation, BMC then cancelled the entire project with the two pre-production cars not quite completed. No doubt the position of the car as a rival to Jaguar was also a factor that weighed against it as William Lyons wanted no internal competition for the E-Type and its eventual successor. The price of the Austin-Healey would have undercut its rival from Coventry and likely also poached customers from MG and Triumph seeking to stretch their budget for such an enviable product.

More luxurious than hairy chested, the Austin-Healey would have preserved the Austin-Healey name for a new decade. With one car finished — the first prototype — and two nearly so, plus four additional chassis, the project reached an ignominious end.

The two almost finished cars were finished in slap-dash fashion to a middling standard. The 3 finished cars were sold off to various collectors and friends of Warwick where they have survived to the 21 st century one is located at the Healey museum in the Netherlands.

John Greenleaf Whitter is right, it might have been just plain sucks. November 20, October 22,