1967 Austin Healey 3000 for sale with test drive, driving sounds, and walk through video
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- Опубліковано 25 кві 2012
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Only 19,057 original miles (documented by the "A" actual mileage title!). Ownership history since new w/ binder of documents & receipts. Last year for production, matching #'s original 2.9 liter inline 6 cylinder w/ twin side draft SU carbs @ 150 bhp, original close ratio 4-speed trans w/ electric overdrive. Finished in Signal red paint, and complimented with a black bucket seat interior w/ folding rear deck seat, for 2+2 seating. Stunning real burlwood dash, original working stock BMC AM radio, black convertible top with matching boot & tonneau cover, Girling front disc brakes, telescoping wood rimmed sport steering wheel, great sounding dual exhaust, new 15" chrome 60 spoke wires wheels. Surprisingly fast & great sounding, just a fun to drive iconic British roadster.
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I bought my first Austin Healey 3000 in 1975 for $1900. Drove it from South Carolina to Seattle Washington. I love the car and love the Healey sound!
The AH 3000 Mk III is design classic and a thing of automotive beauty it sits right alongside the Jaguar E-type in the pantheon of great British sports cars of the 60's.
Beautiful looking car. I've always loved this version of the Austin Healey.
One of my favorite British cars!
Man, mine was white with black interior. How I miss it and my 65 E Jag in Platinum Blue.
It has been over 30 years since I sold my Austin Healey 100-6. Its still one of the poorest decisions I ever made. I would love to have a 3000 Healey (little bigger than the 100) today. Nothing comes close to the great sound, nor is there anything that corners nearly as good.
Bill Johns me too. I had a 1961 3000
Tried to buy it back but unfortunately the boob I sold it to had already totalled it racing a motorcycle . True dumbass.
FYI this car cost me $1,500.00 can back in 1967
A timeless classic
Only got to see this clip now. Needed a right hand drive for Australia. Lovely example.
Beautiful beautiful beautiful!
I have one I am selling. Austin Healey Mark III del 1967 all original. How much do you think it is worth? Pearl white. Mint condition.
It WAS a great car! Better than my 1960 model, later called the Mk I.
My later was a May '67, HBJ8 40393, I bought it in 1971, took it from England to New Zealand in 1973.
Thanks for showing!
I bought my first car from a friend of mine who was selling his 1968 Healey 3000 Series 3 mark3 for about $700 It was in British Racing Green and I still have that car which went a body off the chassis and totally rebuilt, including the motor, gearbox, front and rear suspension, and has been repainted in Colorado Red with grey carpets and seats with red piping. Also had Koni Shock Absorbers fitted which improved the road holding tremendously. The Walnut dash board had stared to split so a new dash was made from Rosewood and has the highest gloss finish I have ever seen. As it has been totally rebuilt and everything is been rebuilt or replaced, the Speedometer now reads 5000 Miles completed and comes with all the factory fitted accessories , including a zero mileage engine and the entire service history it not for sale at any price. Bloody great to drive on a nice sunny day with the top down and the rumble of that exhaust
I am truly impressed being only a half ass mechanic working on taxis and a little body work too everything but automatic transmissions and even that if it is simple and I am lucky but you have done a fantastic job with all sincerity
Thank you Stephen, much appreciated. Yes getting the Healey fully restored to Concours condition was a labour of love, and a large percentage of the work must go to the Healey Factory in Melbourne Australia. I dont keep the Healey at home for obvious reasons, but its kept in a 24 hour round the clock lock up garage complex. I have three immobilser systems installed, so there is no way that a thief could even hot wire it , as it still would not start.. I dont know how to upload photos or even music onto You Tube for that matter, so havent really bothered with it. It gets used most weekends, when the club goes on a days outing to where ever and then back to the lock up and put away for another day.
nothing wrong with that! I as a half ass mechanic basically put a toggle switch under the dashboard many years ago which no one knew was there if you tried to hot wire it but that was simple and I didn't live in the area, it seems you have a truly "new age" electronically I mean, immobilizer systems I commend you again
This is nice but yours sounds good too, enjoy.
Make no mistake John T . Our Healey club of Western Australia has done an 800 km + trip in one day .Perfect weather the whole day. Did see 180 kmh on the speedo for about 5km
Ten cars in all doing 180 was bloody brilliant.
THIS is the car that the Triumph TR3A would like to be ! I love them both, btw.
Her 'twin' was my dad's pride and joy.
Mine too.
I love Austin Healey’s
Simply stunning!
My first car was a 1960 AH bugeye sprite, really fun car. I traded it in for a 1963
AH 3000. The rocker panels were rusted away, but it was great fun while I was in college. One of my friends had a 1969 GTO. They were obviously different drivers, but I liked the way my Healy handled corners the best.
OBTW my car 45 years later is a Honda S2000 : )
Don't want to come across as a total wanker but, in the interests of accuracy, the correct name for that type of Sprite is 'Frog eye'.
The only extra passengers who could fit in those rear seats are children under the age of 8, but only for local rides. The wind would be very rough on them if you went faster than 30 mph . One adult could sit back there sideways for a short ride, like dropping them off at their house or at a store . The seats are just cute additions, just slightly larger than the "rear seat" in a TR-3 .
Great British car. Is that 19,000 miles per year?
4 cylinder, like the racing Healey 100m? Hmmm? Nothing like the sound of those big straight 6s with downdraft carburators. 6 speed really since OD works for 3rd and 4th. Late ones like this were the nicest, wood interior.
This applies to all old cars, buy the best you can afford. A well restored example will give long service.
In the case of this car, it has enough performance to cope with today's traffic. The were successful rally & race cars.
I wonder how much it sold for
There is one of these near where I live fitted with a 289 small block Ford V8 It really moves great car I believe small block Chevvy V8s will also fit without much trouble
Great idea at the time, I even considered it.
But even in the 70's the future rarity was becoming apparent.
More the late 60's and 70's. Allot of the cars before that time were pretty good or no worse than other cars of the era.
Talk about a babe magnet!!
My dad owned on of these jewels. He sold it just before I got my drivers licence. He was wise. He knew I would probably kill myself in it. And his beautiful car would become a pile of scrap metal. :-D
He did allow me to buy a (he even loaned me half the money) Yamaha twin jet 100 motorcycle! It was just enough 'bike' to teach me several LESSONS without being a certain death trap.
The over drive makes it a touring car.
Tony your alright...
How much? I’ll buy it. My first car was exactly this car!
That reproduction center steering wheel is a bloody fortune :(
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I trust this guy about as far as I could comfortably spit out a rat.
Jon Jones why? Because he knows about his cars and makes silly dad jokes to keep info that can be considered a bit dry, more interesting to hear if it’s only due to silly remarks? For every guy like you that makes unfounded judgments, ten are thrilled with the car and or service that they have received from us.
@@Flemingsclassics Because I saw the video offering a Rolls Royce corniche and he said they only made 39 of them. If you check on Wikipedia or the Rolls Royce Enthusiasts Club, they quote 4332 Rolls Royce versions and 140 Bentley versions. And 1234 mark 2s. Perhaps the Wikipedia and the Rolls Royce Enthusiasts Club got their numbers wrong. However, I trust them more than a dealer in second hand cars. So no, Its not because he makes silly Dad jokes, it's because I think he's a conman. There is an unfounded judgment for you.
@@jonjones1553 Nice A-H 3000, even though he is not an expert on them.
Er..yeah.
The last of the angry cars.
I guess this video will go on for another 11 years, How about taking this crap off.
one of the most sexy sportster ever!
Actually compared to American cars at the time (pre 1972 before they went to thinner gauge steel and the oil crises which forced them to cut back on quality) the Euro cars where way below par. They had newer tech (which you could find on US cars but not all of them) but the build quality was horrid, many still used 6 volt electrics, the wiring was sub standard, the engines where unreliable as was the gear box. American cars while didnt have good over all body work the drive train was solid.
That was true for some UK vehicles, but the 3L Austin engine and gearbox was solid!
goodness this is a beautiful vehicle!! too bad they sold it :/ not like I had 50k anyways, hahaha
how can you have a 22 cylinder and be a v16 do you know that a v16 would have 16 cylinders i a v shape you know nothing
Used to have a Healey 3000 in the UK and I must say it was in bad condition. US cars have had a much better chance to survive and I would certainly, if I was going to buy such a car again, buy only in the US. Nothing would delight me more as to to a round trip of the US and Canada in such a car as this. The E type Jag killed the Healey. The last Healeys had a Rolls Royce 4 litre engine originally designed for the military. But it was saddly dropped.
Jags ugliest ever
Jag's build and handling should have killed it!
I was comparing with Europe. But the major strikes and overall idiots were more in the 70's. My family had an early Daimler majestic major from early 60s I think and it went on for decades and drive train etc was fine on it. But yeah we know Americans do everything better..
If I had money...
Pretty car…couldn't listen past the "ram air" comment though (!) Lots of inane comments here about poor English engineering and manufacturing. There are pluses and minus to any margie, but to argue that American cars (manufacturing and engineering) were superior to British iron in the 60's is just not true. In terms of engineering, the Brits were doing seat belts, fuel injection, disc brakes, independent rears and genuine aerodynamics etc long before us…and you might remember Lotus forcing all those Indy cars to go mid engine to have any chance of beating them. In terms of manufacturing the best things about the British equipment was the excellent castings, everything was designed to last forever and be renewed. They liked to use unsealed bearings so you could grease them and they'd never wear out (sealed for life bearings fail when the grease leaks out). Who was the first manufacturer to start using disc brakes in the 50's? Meanwhile, American companies lost their way in the 60's and were copying Europe. How about the Corvair…Italian body, Porsche engine? I won't wast any more space here…but I wouldn't beat up on those Brits too much. You still see more Landrovers off road around the world than Jeeps.
listen I love British cars especially Healey's but lets get real. Lever shocks, king pins and non syncro first gear in transmissions is a joke in 1967. They never put money into the Healey because the license agreement with Healey was not renewed. They sold the most Healey's ever in 1966 with no changes except for added marker lights. Too much politics and jealousy in British circles killed the Healey 3000 and it was a shame because if they invested and modernized the car they would have tripled their sales and competed on the level of the Datsun Z which Nissan built as a competitor to the Healey just as British Leyland was abandoning the market.
@@theglen43 I fitted KONI's to my 3000 Mk III, and Cobra wires! So there! ;-)
Why not mention the 22 cylinder V-16? You know nothing about Healeys.
And you talk a lot more shit than he might . If you could fit a V-16 under that hood, the cylinders would have to be the size of Vienna sausage cans !
Typical salesman. Nothing wrong. No talk of the rust proofing, restoration details etc.and he just does not stop talking!
Mk111
This bloke has no idea. There is no back seat to speek of at all. Have a very good look at that car RUST
+Miles Duggan Miles, I used to always have two girls in the back seat when I had my black Mark lll. There is indeed a back seat. One of the most amazing sports cars ever built! Why so negative? Smile! :)
+ Miles Duggan - What are you blind & def? - 7:39
It's the prettiest rust though.
@@rickmascaro2889 I had my gf and her friend in the back of my '67 Mk III!
Best place for them....😁
@@rickmascaro2889 I'm sure you did. I saw a guy pull into the ice cream joint in Key West in 1964 in his Sprite Mk II with two chicks in back, sitting on the car itself . They could as well be sitting in these rear seats, but that's a couple of kids going around having fun. There aren't any real adults who are going to sit back there except perhaps to get a lift to some place nearby. They're really perfect to fit two children under 8. You could even put the top up, but it wouldn't be a good idea for other than a short ride around. In a long ride, on the road, they'd drive you crazy stuck in there or they'd get blasted by the wind with the top down. This guy makes it sound like the seats are as normal as those in an American car. How about the "rear seats" in a TR-3 ???!!! LOL !
The "scoop" is non-functional.
No, it's not.
Always liked the car very much. Why the ugly grille? Out of character. Ruins the beauty of the design.
Much more attractive
than the early model's horizontal bars ;-)
@@ianrichardson3228 I like the vertical bars too. What I don't is the overall perimeter shape. I guess we do not have to agree on everything.
I agree with you 100%, but you know how it is. The company has to be altering things about every year. They think if they don't, people will lose interest. That's why I love the Morgan : It's looked the same for over 70 years !
@@axiomist4488 Right on. I love all Morgans except the (IMHO) ugly tricycle.
I would not buy a car from that guy
Buy the car , not the salesman
British engineering and manufacturing is not really a selling point. Remember back in the 50's and 60's and even today the British could draw a picture of a great looking car but their workmanship was like worse then Chinese Built quality, at least the Chinese have never purposely tried to build a car as shotty as possible to get back at the company or boss during union negotiation.