#1 Mashed Barn Find Austin Healey 3000 Still in Barn

[freespeachrulez]

I found a 65 that runs!! For 600... it is a 1965 should I buy it?

[scheese]

@freespeachrulez No you should not buy it. Can you send me the owner's telephone number? Cheers

[freespeachrulez]

@scheese Haha. I will take your no as a yes.. its pretty far from me.

[scheese]

@freespeachrulez WORTH IT! Take a trailer. Send me photos and I'll give a look over for you. Any Healey 3000 can be worth good money in any condition. Running is a huge plus. Rot is the worst problem and very difficult to sort. Good luck

[freespeachrulez]

@freespeachrulez It is a Sprite.. convertible ofcourse. Looks sorta like a mg midget.

[scheese]

@freespeachrulez OK its a Sprite. That makes sense. $600 is probably what it is worth but not worth investing money into.

[FLSHBK1]

BUMP! ~ OK guys, here we are, about three years later. Can we get an update on what's happening to this AH, please? (I pray it didn't go for parts!) 

[scheese]

@FLSHBK1 The car have been on the road for several years now. I posted a couple vids. See ya on the road.

[KISSarmyist]

What happend to her :(

Fix it.. And drive it, like it was meant to do..

[barryismygod]

why is the windshield frame bent?

[AnAngryPossom]

i love these little cars. austin healey always made some great little cars like this. it pains me to see it in this condition, i hate to see cars suffer. any plans on restoring it?

[amck63]

dream on hunter man thats worth a lot of money a good panel beater can fix that no probs

[HunterMann]

Yes, but if you ask most car restorers what they'd pay you for the car, they will throw it back at you asking "I don't know. What do you want for it?" If you say $100 or 1,000 it's still to their advantage. For some amusing reading about this, look at the discussion forum for eBay Motors on eBay. Some great debates about what a car is worth. I hereby triple my offer on this car...to $300!

[amck63]

I think it is probably worth about 6 to 8 grand the way it iz 8 grand to restore to concourse then 20 to 24 but thats just speculation there is so much to take into consideration and i would have to see it close up

[scheese]

@HunterMann Are you seriously that stupid?

[scheese]

@HunterMann Are you seriously that stupid?

[HunterMann]

@scheese Are you seriously commenting about a comment made over a year ago about this?! 29 people use this YouTube in our office(it's the breakroom public laptop). So... which of the 29 people are you calling stupid?

[scheese]

@HunterMann Whomever said a trashed Healey 3000 is worth $300 is the moron in your office. Yep. Just spotted the comment a year later.

[HunterMann]

@scheese You are a year late to the party. If you'd take the time to attend a large car auction, like Barrett-Jackson, you'll see restored Healeys that are amazing restorations that have over $50,000 invested and hundreds of hours of work into them. At the auction they end up getting $18,000 max. Do the math... I think there are some morons who collect cars.

[scheese]

@HunterMann OK it was obviously not a moron in your office using your user name. Perhaps you ohave just been in a cave. If you can buy a nice Healey 3000 for $18k at BJ I will gladly buy it from you so you can make a sweet profit. Let me know when you find a Healey for $18,000. Fingers crossed.

[HunterMann]

I'll pay $100 for this car!

[Ferrari20101001]

Dude fully restored those can go for $20,000+ in auction.

[HunterMann]

Yes, but many car restorers pay the cheapest they can. Many barn cars like this go for $100-300. Why? The seller is motivated: theyr'e moving& it's a hassle for them, someone inherited the car with no clue of its value?Some people never get around to restoring a car, so they sell it cheap to get it out of sight. Okay, I'd pay $200, and that's double my original offer!

[churd243]

100% british beef!

[masterexploderrox]

what happened to it

[SendinK9]

Well seen part #2 of this video out in the sunlight and it seems theres more damage then could be seen in this video. Looks like a tree may have fallen on it. The rear quarter panel in the vid looks like it was spread out of alinement. This will take a bit longer to restore then I originally thought. However that also depends on the shop restoring it. The "Toy Shop" where I worked in California would take at least a year or two ( fully restored from wiring right on up.

[SendinK9]

1.

I own a 69 Sprite MK IV for 20 years that I actually have photos of Donald Healey driving... Long Story. I worked for many years in an Austin Healey restoration shop in Cali and we found a lot worse shape Healeys, TR3's ( The Old knuckle draggers), MGA Twin Cams etc etc in the junk heap and they were fully restored to a 10 point show cars, some went on to be ribbon winners. Time to restore most is 2 years some sooner.

[SendinK9]

3. It is lack of knowledge and history. This is an excellent find!!! My trained eye sees further then that windscreen damage and I can say this car in clean and I would be overjoyed if I found it. Question is how much did you wind up paying...

Need parts go to Victoria British !! They are excellent suppliers of all things British.

[1RadNomad]

Hey American friends over the pond, please look after our classic motoring heritage, good memories are all that's left of the British auto industry..!

[scheese]

Will do 1RadNomad. It looks like we may soon just have memories as well. Perhaps the international chumming going on right now will fix the world. Perhaps not. Keep em on the road.

Cheers

[hellochuffy]

The only thing I ever found in a barn was chicken sh*t, oh well maybe one day. Good luck with the restoration.

[354902047]

restore it please

[ITS4390]

holy mary mother of god! its beautiful, dude the only things I ever found that were Barn yard Wrecks were a 53 Harley Davidson Panhead (which actually started up oddly enough) and an old Plymouth Road Runner (with no engine in it)

[Tom741]

how could mother nature do such a thing,have a tree fall on a healey :(

[oldskoolcoin]

I wish I could find one of those in a barn!

[humvee600]

who fuckin cares about your freakin 36 ferrari, Austin Healey are better than ferrari

[corvettez3]

wtf that healy is so fuckin neglected.my 36 ferrari isnt even got a dent on it or scratch!

[scheese]

Cool. Yep this thing was neglected for about 25 years. You can see it in motion on the vid I uploaded yesterday. I went to your page to see your car. There is no video of it.

[ATS68]

I've got a MK II tri carb sitting in the garage. I have the BHMIT certificate for it so it's a true California car. Anyone in the Pasadena area want to help me out please email me and let's get this bad boy back out on the road again. thanks. VROOM, VROOM

[scheese]

I sent a response but not sure where it went...There are plenty of folks willing to talk you through it at the Austin Healey Club USA. register on the mailing list. Get er on the road.

Cheers,

S

[maureyrd]

Wow, that's amazing. I'll look for the other vids on your car too. There were about 355 of the BN7's produced (at least in 1961-62) with a significant number coming to America. The BN7's were true 2 seaters with a triple carb setup. I have one that is in pretty rough condition due to its presence in Gulfport, Mississippi on August 29, 2005....the last conversation of any significance that my father and I had was about restoring it and I pray I can.

[scheese]

Come on! Do it before you are dead! We wanna see. Please post videos or at least get some shot on Webshots so we all can see the progress from the current state. Lemme know what transpires.

Cheers,

S

[obiscob]

I have found that YouTube prevent the insertion of any emails addresses in outgoing posts. Kind makes it dificult to do as I suggested. Cheers

obiscob

[obiscob]

Do you want to exchange emails/pics on/of BN7's ?

I'll send you my e m a i l address is you do .

Cheers,

Obiscob

[scheese]

When I first heard about it it was not yet smashed. After several years the barn was going to fall in so they had the car moved out in the yard. Within a week a tree fell on it!!

I tell her I may be able to help sell it if not buy it. I go take a look and I fall in love of course. I notice it has NO significant rust. It is a rare BN7 two seater. Everything appears original except for the dark blue re-spray. I tell her we need to work out a price. More but limited..

Vroom

[obiscob]

Yeah, you are right- it is a BN7 and I had one too.

They are rarer than rocking horse shit and very well worthwhile restoring ( ALL Big Healeys are, but especially this one ! ). It has non standard wire wheels, but what the fuck !

[scheese]

They came with wires also.

Ciao

[creamofcardstv]

great video clip and I've rated it as five star. Please check out my clips on vintage motor car trading cards, 1920s-1950s.

[MAZDAMAN666]

Awsome car

[scheese]

Yep. You can see it in running state at our BG Euro Classics car club web site or on Google Video.

Just Google "BG Euro Classics" The video is around 30 minutes and won't fit on Youtube.

It's a scruffy driver for now. I plan a full restoration. It will return to the original Healey blue.

Cheers

[BchSunwrshipr]

Please tell me that it's out of the barn now!

[cherryturbojames]

wow great find