Graham Robson is the doyen of writers on rallying. His new book, Works
Healeys in Detail, joins his respected Works Triumphs and Works
Escorts in our list. Here he tells of the story of Donald Healey's
introduction of the cars of his own make into the world of rallying and
racing, from the Healey Elliott and Westland of the late 1940s through
to the last racing Austin-Healey Sprite in 1967. In between he produced
competition versions of the Austin-Healey 100 and 100S, the 100-6 and
the gloriously successful 3000, a brutal and wayward machine that won
countless international rallies in the 1960s in the hands of great
drivers like Pat Moss, Timo Makinen, Rauno Aaltonen and Paddy Hopkirk,
to name but a few.
The book covers the career of each of the works cars individually:
entries, drivers and results, with nearly all cars illustrated. In
addition there is detailed colour photography of important surviving
examples.