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The Third Annual “All Austin-Healey” Show!

Posted on April 25, 2011 | Leave a comment »

The Kemp Auto Museum has been selected again by the Gateway Austin-Healey Club to host the Third Annual “All Austin-Healey” Show from 10 am until 3 pm on Sunday, May 15, 2011.

Austin-Healeys were the popular British sports cars which thousands of red-blooded automobile enthusiasts aspired to own (and still do). They had plenty of performance, exquisite styling, immense charisma and a first-class competition pedigree. Known for their dominance in European rallies and circuit racing in the 1950’s and 60’s, quite a few of the cars that were exported to the United States found themselves successfully racing in SCCA events in the 1970’s and are still very competitive today.  Eighty-three percent of the total production of 14,614 four-cylinder cars and 51,317 six-cylinder cars were shipped to the United States.

Read More in Old Cars Weekly News Article.