Graham Robson is the doyen of writers on rallying. His new book, Works
Healeys in Detail, joins his respected Works Triumphs and Works Escorts
in our list. Here he tells of the story of Donald Healey’s introduction
of the cars of his own make into the world of rallying and racing, from
the Healey Elliott and Westland of the late 1940s through to the last
racing Austin-Healey Sprite in 1967. In between he produced competition
versions of the Austin-Healey 100 and 100S, the 100-6 and the gloriously
successful 3000, a brutal and wayward machine that won countless
international rallies in the 1960s in the hands of great drivers like
Pat Moss, Timo Makinen, Rauno Aaltonen and Paddy Hopkirk, to name but a
few. The book covers the career of each of the works cars individually:
entries, drivers and results, with nearly all cars illustrated. In
addition there is detailed colour photography of important surviving
examples. In Works Healeys in Detail, rally veteran and historian Graham
Robson tackles the career of every works Healey – racing, rallying and
record-breaking.
Graham Robson is the doyen of writers on rallying. His new book, Works
Healeys in Detail, joins his respected Works Triumphs and Works Escorts
in our list. Here he tells of the story of Donald Healey’s introduction
of the cars of his own make into the world of rallying and racing, from
the Healey Elliott and Westland of the late 1940s through to the last
racing Austin-Healey Sprite in 1967. In between he produced competition
versions of the Austin-Healey 100 and 100S, the 100-6 and the gloriously
successful 3000, a brutal and wayward machine that won countless
international rallies in the 1960s in the hands of great drivers like
Pat Moss, Timo Makinen, Rauno Aaltonen and Paddy Hopkirk, to name but a
few. The book covers the career of each of the works cars individually:
entries, drivers and results, with nearly all cars illustrated. In
addition there is detailed colour photography of important surviving
examples. In Works Healeys in Detail, rally veteran and historian Graham
Robson tackles the career of every works Healey – racing, rallying and
record-breaking.
Dimensions: 10 x 10
