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It may sound startling but that's the official acceleration time for the Austin A35. This 1958 example seen recently in Whitby theoretically could reach 70.1 mph and in its day offered an almost unbelievable 40 mpg.
Please see my notes below in which I have copied two Wiki excerpts.
Motoring has certainly changed and the day trip to the seaside which we made without any consideration for the reliability of our car would have been a major undertaking for the little old Austin.
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1953 Austin K2 (Loadstar??) - happy to learn more!
Mullengandra, New South Wales, Australia.
Estoril Endurance Festival. HE 250KM - Qualifying.
Team: PHILIPPE PETIT
Driver: P. PETIT
Car: AUSTIN HEALEY 100
History
In 1900, Bayless Paper chose to construct a paper mill in the Freeman Run Valley. By 1909, the company realized that occasional dry seasons required a more reliable water source. After finding a small earthen dam to be inadequate, the T. Chalkey Hatton firm built a large concrete dam across the valley. The dam was 50 feet (15 m) high, 540 feet (160 m) long and cost $86,000 to construct.[1] It was designed to be thirty feet thick, but was built only twenty feet thick.
Within only a few months of its completion, problems were detected. The dam bowed more than 36 feet (11 m) under the pressure of the water it was holding and the concrete started cracking. The bowing was alleviated by using dynamite to blast a 13-foot (4.0 m) space for the excess water to spill over. The cracking was claimed to be normal because of the drying cement.
On September 30, 1911, the dam failed and destroyed the Bayless Pulp & Paper Mill as well as much of the town of Austin. The damage was approximately $10 million. It also resulted in the deaths of 78 people. The paper mill and dam were subsequently rebuilt, but the mill was lost in a fire in 1933. The new dam failed in 1942 with no loss of life. The dam was not replaced after the second failure.
A documentary about the dam disaster, featuring narration by Willie Nelson, was created by Mansfield University of Pennsylvania professor Gale Largey in 1999. It includes interviews with five survivors along with original newsreel footage.
From Wikipedia
Estoril Endurance Festival Nov 2025.
250 Km Historic Endurance Qualifying
Team: Classic Garage
Drivers: J. da Rocha/G. Mestrot
Car: Austin Healey 100A
austin atlantic in lower marsh. manufactured sometime between 1949 and 1952 but with looks harking back to art deco designs of the 1920s and 30s
Austin is the capital city of Texas. It is the 11th-most populous city in the U.S., the fourth-most-populous city in Texas, and the second-most-populous state capital city (after Phoenix, Arizona). It is also the fastest growing large city in the U.S. and the southernmost state capital in the contiguous US. As of the U.S. Census Bureau's July 1, 2018 estimate, Austin had a population of 964,254. The city is the cultural and economic center of the Austin–Round Rock metropolitan statistical area, which had an estimated population of 2,168,316 as of July 1, 2018. U.S. News & World Report named Austin the No. 1 place to live in the U.S. for 2017 and 2018.
In the 1830s, pioneers began to settle the area in central Austin along the Colorado River. In 1839, the site was chosen to replace Houston as the capital of the Republic of Texas and was incorporated under the name "Waterloo". Shortly afterward, the name was changed to Austin in honor of Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas" and the republic's first secretary of state.
A number of Fortune 500 companies have headquarters or regional offices in Austin including, 3M, Amazon.com, Apple Inc., Google, IBM, Intel, Oracle Corporation, Texas Instruments, and Whole Foods Market; Dell's worldwide headquarters is located in the nearby suburb of Round Rock. The city's official slogan promotes Austin as "The Live Music Capital of the World," a reference to the city's many musicians and live music venues, as well as the long-running PBS TV concert series Austin City Limits.
Austin Healey 3000 sports convertible. I think a 1964 Mark II. In Left Hand Drive for the North American market.
Seen here doing parade laps at Sydney Motorsport Park.
Eastern Creek, New South Wales, Australia.
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The Austin-Healey 3000 is a British sports car built from 1959 to 1967. It is the best known of the "big Healey" models. The car's bodywork was made by Jensen Motors and the vehicles were assembled at BMC's MG Works in Abingdon, alongside the corporation's MG models.
During its production life, the car transitioned from an open sports car, albeit with a child-transporting 2+2 option, to a sports convertible.
In 1963, 91.5 per cent of all Austin-Healey 3000 cars were exported; mostly to North America.
The 3-litre 3000 was a highly successful car, which won its class in many European rallies in its heyday and is still raced in classic car competitions by enthusiasts today.
British Leyland ended manufacture in 1967, intending its place to be filled by a car with a new, though similar, engine in a more recently designed monocoque MGB variant named MGC.
Trains started arriving in Austin in 1871. These warehouses on E. 4th St. are the only surviving buildings from the city's first rail yard. Black and white, bnw, b&w, b/w, bw, monochrome, grayscale.
For my video: youtu.be/VdGoMzNczTE?si=LOBFHNPJtA22M7Xn
All-British Field Meet,
VanDusen Botanical Garden,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.