Nash Nash-Healey History
History
The Nash-Healey was born of a chance shipboard meeting in 1949 between Nash-Kelvinator president George Mason and British engineer Donald Healey. The result was a three-way sports car: Nash supplied the Ambassador's six-cylinder drivetrain, Donald Healey's company built the chassis in England, and the finished cars were assembled and (from 1952) bodied by Pinin Farina in Italy.
Introduced for 1951, it is counted among the first postwar American sports cars and competed at Le Mans. It was always a low-volume, high-priced halo car — its roughly $4,000 sticker and unfamiliarity to American buyers kept numbers tiny. Just 507 Nash-Healeys were built across four model years before production ended after 1954.
Body styles
- Roadster
- Coupe
Notable special editions & performance variants
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Pinin Farina coupe (Le Mans)
A sleek Pinin Farina-styled closed coupe that joined the roadster, its 'Le Mans' name nodding to the car's racing efforts.
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