With its muscular good looks and six-cylinder motor, the ‘Big Healey’ is firmly established as one of the most revered British sports cars of all time and typically carries a price tag to match. And yet, in a similar vein to the much cheaper Austin-Healey Sprite, the car’s roots were remarkably modest.
The model came about when Cornishman Donald Healey set about moving his firm’s repertoire away from heavy coachbuilt cars into a new, modern
