Healey Silverstone by blinkings
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Description
1949. Healey's Silverstone, introduced in July 1949, was a sort of streamlined version of the traditional prewar British sports car, a cigar-shaped roadster with cutaway doors, separate "clamshell" fenders, and a smooth nose with a "waterfall" vertical-bar grille sporting two closely set headlights behind.
Because they were assembled mostly by hand, Healeys were expensive.
As a dual-purpose "race-and-ride" sports car, the Silverstone was designed to be light, simple, and functional. Thus, weather protection was rudimentary, while the spare tire was mounted in the tail and jutted out to do double duty as the rear bumper. And at about 2,100 pounds, the Silverstone weighed 400-500 pounds less than other Healeys, which contributed to its success in competition.
Comments (16)
Oh my goodness mate this is torture I want one of those . thanks for sharing these I'm enjoying them. Geoff.
This is a beauty and its even got a tow hitch.
Beautiful colour.
Oh wow amazing set of wheels thanks for the info !!
Stunning capture my friend. God Bless.
Gorgeous! I had a toy one of these once, we played wuith it so much it lost most of its paint.
This was the forerunner of a truly classical Austin Healy design that melted the hearts of thousands!
Superb car!
what a car !!! thx for info too !!
Wonderful capture
Fantastic capture and info Andrew. What a front end design. Dana
Awesome photo of this classic auto!!
A Healey I didn't know existed. Beautiful shot. Mine had rudimentary weather protection too...at least around the side windows above the low cut doors.
Oh yes! Wonderful.. Beautiful shot once more Andrew, got to be a Fave once more AND is the a Ford behind ;-) Rob
A very cool looking machine and an excellent capture of it.
These old models have so much detail and wonderful lines!!