NOW ON OFFER: THE LAST AUSTIN HEALEY 3000 MK III EVER PRODUCED

One of the most remarkable examples of British sports car history—the very last of the “Big Healeys” built by hand in early 1968—is now available at its home in Golden, Colo. Under the meticulous stewardship of its current owner, Brian C. Mott, a longtime car collector and Austin-Healey enthusiast, the lovingly restored and Old-English white Mark III, Phase II, BJ8 model remains one of the rarest of the rare in the legendary pantheon of automobiles created by Donald Healey. More on this newly available and singular masterpiece below, but first a look at the company it keeps: It takes its place alongside a select handful of magnificent examples of artistic Austin-Healey craftsmanship and mechanical excellence from the storied Healey past that have come to be known as “The Fab 5”:

‘ONX 113’ - 1953 AUSTIN-HEALEY 100/'100S' COUPÉ Sold for £639,900 (US$ 794,180)

One of the most historically significant Austin-Healeys, a prototype and one of just two 100s built in Coupe form by the newly formed partnership between Austin Motor Co. and the Donald Healey Motor Co. On its completion this coupe was to become the personal and preferred transport of Donald Healey. Importantly, his car was included in the Special Test Car development program acquiring Dunlop disc brakes, 100S mechanicals and other innovative modifications, of which many ultimately found their way into production Austin-Healeys.

‘EVV 106’ - 1955 AUSTIN-HEALEY 100S SPORTS RACING TWO-SEATER

Chassis no. AHS 3509 Engine no. IB.222710 Sold for £673,500 (US$ 835,881)

During the 1950s the most accessible, most appealing and in many cases the most successful club racing car available to any aspiring racing driver was one of the products of the Donald Healey Motor Company's famous factory at The Cape, Warwick. This particular appealing and in-period highly successful Austin-Healey 100S is a shining example of the type. It has an outstanding record as a club racing contender raced over a seven-year period from 1955 until 1962. As a genuine 100S it was one of only 55 such Austin-Healeys produced during 1955, of which at most only 38 are believed to survive today.

‘NOJ 393’ - EX-WORKS, LE MANS 24-HOURS, SEBRING 12-HOURS, CARRERA PANAMERICANA AND BAHAMAS

SPEED WEEK, NASSAU,1953-55 AUSTIN-HEALEY SPECIAL TEST CAR/100S PROTOTYPE SPORTS-RACING

TWO-SEATER Chassis no. SPL 226/B Engine no. SPL 261-BN

Sold for £843,000 (US$ 1,046,247) This was an extraordinary 'barn find' sports car with works racing pedigree, but also a competition car which survives today as an immensely significant reminder of an event which changed the entire course of International motor racing history. Furthermore, 'SPL 226/B' presented here is not only one of the Donald Healey Motor Company's four original 1953 Works-racing - or 'Special Test Cars' – but it is also one of only two of those which were subsequently converted to full-blown Works 100S specification. This is the only one of the works Special Test Cars that were constructed through 1953-54 to have competed in not just one Le Mans 24-Hour Grand Prix d'Endurance race, but in two.

'NOJ 392' - EX-WORKS MILLE MIGLIA AND LE MANS 24-HOURS, 1953 AUSTIN-HEALEY 100 SPECIAL TEST CAR

Chassis no. SPL 225B Engine no. 1B136876 Sold for £785,500 (US$ 974,884)

This remarkably well-documented ex-Mille Miglia, ex-Le Mans 24-Hour race Austin-Healey works car began life as one of the Donald Healey Motor Company's pre-production competition vehicles. It was custom-built for this purpose under the direction of their chief engineer, Geoff Healey, and experimental engineer Roger Menadue in their famous factory at The Cape, Warwick, during the early months of 1953. This was only the sixth Austin-Healey built there and it is properly referred to as one of the company's immensely rare, now legendary, and much-coveted, 'Special Test Cars'.

'RWD 132' - 1955 AUSTIN-HEALEY 100S SPORTS-RACING TWO-SEATER

Chassis no. AHS 3702 Engine no. 1B136876 Sold for £673,500 (US$ 869,886)

During the 1950s the most accessible, most appealing and in many cases the most successful club racing car available to any aspiring racing driver was one of the products of the Donald Healey Motor Company's famous factory at The Cape, Warwick. This particularly appealing and in-period highly successful Austin-Healey 100S is a shining example of the type. It has an outstanding record as one of the most successful 100Ss of it's period competing in no fewer than 49 races on almost all UK circuits claiming 30 podium places including 14 outright wins. For 37 years it comprised part of the celebrated Norfolk connoisseur Arthur Carter's wonderful Austin-Healey collection. As a genuine 100S it is one of only 55 such Austin-Healeys ever produced during 1955, of which only 38 are believed to survive today...

'WKF 430F' - 1968 AUSTIN-HEALEY 3000 MARK III PHASE II

Chassis no. H-BJ8 43026 Engine no. 29K-RU-H/17504 And now comes the last Big Healey—chassis number 43026, a number that bespeaks both the end of a glorious era of British sports car history and the beginning of a journey from England to Scotland to the United States, and from a condition of benign neglect to a restoration marked by the highest standards of professional expertise leavened by a unique sense of automotive grace. The car was built by hand (under what have been described as “mysterious circumstances”) at the “Show Shop” at the Healey plant in Abingdon, England in March 1968, three months after the final closure of the plant. It was first purchased by a Worcester area doctor, J.D. Currie, in December 1968 and subsequently changed hands seven times—three of those times to the same family, the Waites of Surrey. In 1986 the car was bought by the avid Healey enthusiast W.G. Thomson of Dunoon, Scotland and underwent a meticulous photographic nut-and-bolt restoration under his supervision and under the expert hand of Steven Jowett, a leading specialist working with the UK Austin-Healey Centre in West Yorkshire, from June 1994 to April 1996. Today the odometer reads approximately 71,000 miles, only 4,000 miles of which have been logged since Thomson’s and Jowett’s restoration.

When Brian C. Mott, a commercial real estate investor, moved from the United States to England with his family in 1998 and settled in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, his interest in the Austin-Healey marque was revived when he joined the Austin-Healey Club of the UK and saw an ad for the car placed by Thomson in a club magazine. He bought it sight unseen and, after the car underwent a final tune-up and cosmetic cleaning at Jowett’s shop, he and his eldest son took the train to West Yorkshire and drove the last of the Big Healeys home to Surrey.

When Mott returned to the United States in 2002 and settled in Golden, Colo., the Healey came with him and has been carefully garaged and tended there since, undergoing a “freshening” in 2016 by noted English sports car specialist Paul Dierschow, the owner of Sports Car Craftsmen in nearby Arvada, Colo. This stunning example of dedication and love of the art and craft of high-end and uniquely hand-crafted automobile building can be seen and bid upon by contacting Brian at bmott@kearncreekholdings.com.