{"product_id":"healey-the-men-and-the-machines-1","title":"Healey: The Men and the Machines USED","description":"Donald Healey was an outstanding achiever in motorsports and \nmanufacture. Always proudly a Cornishman, a fighter pilot in the First \nWorld War, and founder of a burgeoning garage business in the 1920s, he \nbecame a tireless rallyist, culminating in his winning the Monte Carlo \nRally in 1931. In the 1930s he was with Triumph, but his true career as \na a car designer and manufacturer began straight after World War II, \nwhen he launched the sleek 100mph Healey Elliott, at the time the \nworld’s fastest saloon car. Other Healey models followed, then Nash \nHealeys, but all through this period Healey was suffering the pressures \nof lack of money that haunt so many entrepreneurs. True success finally \narrived with his Healey Hundred in the early 1950s, a quintessential \nsports car design that was immediately snapped up by Austin and became \nthe Austin-Healey 100, to be followed by the 100\/6, the 3000 and the \ntiny Sprite, all of them achieving great commercial and competition \nsuccess. For this exhaustive biography of the man and his work, John \nNikas has drawn on interviews and reminiscences from family and \ncolleagues, detailing every step of Healey’s hectic career, while many \nof the illustrations have never seen before, including photographs from \nHealey’s personal albums and design drawings of the cars. Healey: The \nMen and the Machines details the career and cars designed and raced by \nDonald Healey.","brand":"Herridge \u0026 Sons Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43711846973720,"sku":"B09546#LN","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0057\/9813\/3831\/files\/9781906133825_b428a217-5349-4af1-859c-d62ee3abd415.jpg?v=1772266495","url":"https:\/\/www.midlifeclassiccars.com\/cs\/products\/healey-the-men-and-the-machines-1","provider":"MidlifeClassicCars.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}