today's news: Lance Macklin's Healey Sets New Record at Auction

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This was the Austin-Healey 100M involved in the catastrophic 1955 LeMans Disaster. It was rammed from behind by Pierre Levegh's works Mercedes-Benz 300SLR... The Mercedes flew up and into the crowd, killing 84 spectators.

After being repaired, the Healey set in storage for 42 years.

Today it sold at (Bonham's) auction for £843,000... that's roughly equal to $1,322,620!!!

Read about the car here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2068015/Austin-Healey-racing-car-involved-1955-Le-Mans-disaster-sell-1m.html

Here's what the Healey looked like just an hour or two after the accident:


Want to know more about the works Specials and see construction details? Here's a BritishRacecar article:  http://www.britishracecar.com/BillThumel-Healey-100.htm