Lot details Registration No: VNR 825 Chassis No: HBT79657
- Finished in Metallic Blue over Cream and trimmed in Blue-piped Cream leather
- Righthand drive 'home market' example
- Freshly restored and matching numbers
Further info:
'VNR 825' is an exceedingly smart looking righthand drive home market MKI 3000 that was manufactured in June 1960. A BT7 model (ie 2 + 2 seater), it had had just one owner, a Leonard Kerman of Irchester, Northants, before being acquired by the vendor in 2015. Apparently stored for the previous 44 years it was not surprisingly in need of attention, and therefore treated to a full body-off restoration in 2016, since when it is understood to have travelled just 9,000 miles, so is still barely run in. Finished in a strident tone of Metallic Blue over Cream and trimmed in Blue-piped Cream leather, it is now reckoned by the vendor to have 'excellent' bodywork, paintwork, upholstery, six-cylinder engine, and four-speed manual transmission complete with overdrive. He is now making this matching numbers 'Big Healey' available complete with alloy rocker cover and green log book. A factory specification hard top is also included in the sale, which is to be collected from the vendor at a later date.
The star of the 1952 London Motor Show, the 'Big Healey' enjoyed steady development, with the early four-cylinder cars giving way to the 100-Six in 1956, which in turn was replaced by the first of the 3000s in 1959. By now the engine capacity had risen to 2912cc and the power output to 124bhp - sufficient to grace the standard car with a 0-60mph time of 11.4 seconds and a top speed of 114mph. There was the option of Laycock de Normanville overdrive for the four-speed gearbox and braking had been improved by the adoption of discs at the front. There were two body options - a two-seater (BN7) or occasional four-seater (BT7). By the time the MKI 3000 was superseded by the MKII in 1961, a total of 2,825 BN7s and 10,825 BT7s had been produced.
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