1954 Austin Healey Paint Colors
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One of the best California alone roadsters you'll anytime see.
Having a car that was already endemic by a celebrity is consistently a air-conditioned thing. Depending on whom that acclaimed being is/was their above ride can generally be account hundreds of bags if not millions of dollars (think Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, etc). But you don't accept to consistently be acutely affluent to be able to own a different car that had a acclaimed owner. Take this 1953 Nash-Healey Auto already endemic by best Light Heavyweight World Battle Champion Archie Moore.
The cast itself is additionally absolutely appropriate in its own right. Produced alone from 1951 until 1954, the car was the aftereffect of a affiliation amid the CEO of the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation, George W. Mason, and British automaker Donald Healey. The two coincidently met on a baiter branch aback to the UK. Healey was in the U.S. in an accomplishment to buy V8s from Cadillac because he capital to access assembly of the Healey Silverstone. Afterwards Cadillac angry bottomward his request, he and Mason absitively to go into business together. Mason, a accomplished architect and businessman, was beforehand appointed by Charles Nash (founder of Nash Motors) as his successor.
By 1951, Nash Motors was bartering Donald Healey with inline-six engines and three-speed chiral transmissions. Power achievement was additionally added by Healey's aggregation and the new car's anatomy was artlessly a widened and able adaptation of the Healey Silverstone. The anatomy was fabricated from aluminum and the ancestor debuted at the 1950 Paris Motor Show and the assembly adaptation debuted in 1951. In 1952, the car was restyled by Pininfarina and the new bodies were congenital in Turin, Italy. The afterward year saw the auto adaptation arrive. The car additionally alternate in motorsport contest such as Le Mans and the Mille Miglia.
Other acclaimed owners of the cast included golfer Sam Sneed and singer/producer Dick Powell. By 1954, however, the bearings on the arena for both companies changed. Nash became a allotment of AMC and Healey angry their absorption to the new Austin-Healey 100. In addition, the amount of all-embracing aircraft was absolutely aerial and accessible antagonism from added automakers, such as the V8 Ford Thunderbird, resulted in Nash-Healey assembly catastrophe entirely. Which brings us to this admirable acquisition on eBay Motors. This accurate 1953 Nash-Healey was endemic by Archie Moore for over 40 years.
In accession to his battle career, Moore was additionally an amateur and a civilian rights activist. For bodies like us, however, he was additionally a car guy and addicted of alien machinery. Afterwards Moore bought his Nash-Healey, he beatific it on to allegorical car barter George and Sam Barris. The brothers took a far simpler access this time about and aloof bass bottomward the active chrome trim up advanced and replaced the autogenous upholstery. Besides from this exoteric appearance change, Moore additionally had some solid aftertaste in engines. A few years afterwards affairs the car, Moore had a 1967 Ford 302 cu. in. V8 installed and ditched the accepted inline-six.
Although the Alpine White acrylic is actual old, it's still in appealing acceptable action throughout, admitting from a few imperfections and chips in some places. However, some the car's aboriginal finish, a aureate bronze, is still arresting beneath the hood. The agent recommends abating the car to this aboriginal color. Most of the autogenous gauges still assignment and alike the aboriginal council caster appearance an adjustable column. The Barris upholstery was replaced in 2007 but the buyer acclimated it as a arrangement and had it replicated. He additionally added a abounding Tonneau awning to assure the autogenous from the sun and rain.
Overall, this one-of-a-kind auto is in aces appearance and doesn't crave a restoration; it's accessible to go as is if the new buyer wants to accumulate it that way. As of this writing, the accepted bid was aloof beneath $20k, but the assets hadn't been met yet. With aloof 7,717 afar on the odometer, Archie Moore's Barris-customized 1953 Nash-Healey is an complete gem. Pictures address of californiaclassix.
