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Originally Posted by mdross1
Good story and something I too back in the day wanted to do. A good friend back in the early 70's had a Healey and was convinced he could spank our big block SS Chevelle. Well over a 2 yr. period and several attempts could never get him to line up beside me. Mother and I both miss those days and all the fun we had.
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Funny, that's pretty much how I ended up doing this build. As a kid, I was interested in hot rods, sports cars and muscle cars. I loved the sports car handling and the power of the hot rods and muscle cars. I got into Austin-Healeys with a bugeye Sprite as my first car in high school. I was always reading of engine swaps into British cars and really got hooked when a guy in my hometown put a 2 bbl 289 and C4 into his big Healey and started spanking a lot of the local musclecars. Of course the Cobra really fueled the V8 in a sportscar idea. When I first rebuilt this Healey, I used the six cylinder that had been uprated when it was turned into a SCCA racer in 1965. But it never met my idea of the performance I thought it should have, so I decided to create my perfect Healey. I wanted it to be a period looking swap and used as a theme a young guy getting hold of a '65 K-code motor and doing the swap. It's no Cobra, but it's a lot of fun.