2019-04-24 16:26:40 | Tinribs writes:

Austin Healey 3000 Mk3 BJ8
AOB 245B Is an original UK RHD Vehicle with low miles, Matching numbers with a great history file, Fitted with chrome wire wheels, Overdrive, Mohair hood cover, Full Mohair tonneau cover, Correct period tool kit and Period Jack, This vehicle has been cherished by it's owners throughout it's life.
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Austin-Healey-3000-Mk3-BJ8-Restoration-completed-last-year/23 ...

2021-01-30 14:30:25 | pauls writes:

Car to be at auction 1/21

themarket.co.uk/listings/austin-healey/3000-mk-iii/2661456b-684b-4f18-a835-b537e ...

Auction description:

Location: Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Odometer Reading: 62207

Chassis Number: HBJ827570

Engine: 2912

Gearbox: Manual

Color: Red/Old English White

Interior: Black

We don’t ever describe any vehicle as being perfect. Because where do you go from there? Better than perfect?

At the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Nadia Comaneci became the first gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect 10. By awarding that score the judges had effectively decreed that no-one could ever do any better. And that surely can’t be right.

It’s the same with cars. Perfection, for us, will always be a mythical status that should forever be just out of reach.

So, when we tell you that we’d give this Austin-Healey 3000 MKIII Phase II a score of 9.8 out of 10, you can be sure that it really is very, very good indeed.

No expense, and no amount of hard work, has been spared in restoring this car to the highest standard and keeping it there. It’s a visual delight from every angle, inside and out, and it starts, goes and stops exactly as it should.

On the road it feels tight, solid and thoroughly well screwed together. Nothing rattles, groans sighs or squeaks. It pulls strongly, handles faithfully and entertains wonderfully.

The vendor, who knows his classic cars and how to keep them in excellent mechanical order, says the car is reluctantly for sale ‘though no fault of its own’.

As a lad he had a job in a local petrol station. The owner’s son had one of these cars and would haughtily summon the vendor to fill it with petrol or show the windscreen a cloth.

The vendor vowed that one day he would be the proud owner of a Healey 3000 MKIII himself.

He has now ticked that box.

This, then, is a superb example of a fine British sportscar.

We’re confident that it deserves, and will find, a buyer who appreciates its excellence and can look after it with all the passion and attention to detail shown by its previous owners.