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Today we talk about the man behind Healey Motors, Nash-Healey, Austin-Healey, Jensen-Healey, the man that turned down repeated offers by Ford and Saab to make a sports car, today we discuss the talented and driven Donald Healey.
Healey was born in 1989 in Cornwall England to a shopkeeper. His father was a keen motor enthusiast and owned a 1907 Panhard and would give Donald a 1923 Buick which had the first overhead valve engine that Buick made.
As a lad he took to al things mechanical and went on to study engineering before beginning an apprenticeship in aviation.
Before he could finish his apprenticeship and at just 16 years of age, WWI broke out. Healey volunteered immediately in the Royal Flying Corps, earning his pilots wings to go on night bombing raids and anti-zeppelin patrols eventually becoming a flying instructor. He ac ...
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