2025-04-07 17:31:00 | pauls writes:

Car at auction 4/25

www.handh.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-25---1954-austin-healey-1004/

Auction description:

9th Apr, 2025 Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridgeshire

Lot 25

1954 Austin-Healey 100/4

Estimate £38,000 - £45,000

Registration No: GWH 497

Chassis No: BN1-155273

MOT: Exempt

Finished in Red complemented by a Black leather interior

1 of just c.1,030 right-hand drive examples made

Subject to an older comprehensive restoration with a full repaint in 2010

Various upgrades including 4-speed with overdrive gearbox, front disc brakes & fast road cylinder head

Large history file including lots of invoices & the original buff log book

This original Home Market 100/4 was supplied new in May 1954 to its first owner in Bolton, Lancs. With relatively few owners since, its fourth, and long-term keeper (who retained it from 1987 to c.2015) undertook a comprehensive restoration between 1987 and 1992. In 2010 a full repaint was carried out and in the years since the following upgrades installed; 4 speed overdrive gearbox and hydraulic clutch, larger SU carburettors, alloy unleaded fast road cylinder head and front disc brakes. Following a period of inactivity the car was acquired by the current owner some four years ago. Presented to the market with no known faults, this desirably upgraded Healey comes with a detailed history file including numerous invoices, detailed owners notes and original buff logbook.