In the beginning there was the Austin-Healey 100. A two-seat sports car thus named by its designer, Donald Healey, for the fact that its 2,660cc inline four could push it to the then-magical velocity of one hundred miles per hour. When Austin quit making the big, undersquare 2.5L four (sourced, like most of the rest of the 100's mechanicals, from the A90 Atlantic), Healey had to find a replacement powerplant.
He settled on BMC's C-series inline six, a 2,639cc lump that required stretching the wheelbase two inches, with the resulting car being dubbed the Austin-Healey 100-6.
For the 1960 model year, the car received disc brakes up front and a new 3.0L engine (actually 2,912cc, but who's counting?) that resulted in the Austin-Healey 3000, like the one in the photos.
Breathing through a brace of SU carbs and sporting a then-racy 9.1:1 compression ratio, the big Healey's three liter OHV inline six put out a claimed 124 horsepower and could power the car through the quarter mile in a couple ticks over 17 seconds on its way to a maximum speed of 115mph.
This one was photographed in March of 2025 using an Olympus OM-D E-M5 and a Panasonic Leica 12-60mm f/2.8-4 zoom lens.
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