AUSTIN HEALEY 3000 v TRIUMPH TR6
Hard hitting hairy chested sports cars have almost always been the preserve of the British. Let’s be honest, they’re ideally suited to a country in which it seems to have been raining continually since 1963. A big engine and a simple chassis formed as big a part of the national psyche as fish and chips or a pint of best ale, and no car summed this up better than the Austin Healey 3000.
Developed from the 100/6, the Austin Healey had been one of the first wave of post war sports cars designed to captivate America, and its evolution into a six cylinder semi GT had suited it. But when it was replaced by the MGC in
