Austin-Healey’s and the Austin Healey Car Club of NZ and Others

[Roger Dowding]

Have posted quite a bit on AHS3908 the Austin New Zealand imported car - sold to dealers Seabrook Fowlds, for John Seabrook, then Ross Jensen, and later Graham Pierce. A 100S car that is still in New Zealand.
Story a few years ago by Allan Dick form NZ Classic Driver that has appeared in this thread [ parts of the article ]

AHS3601 was also imported by Austin New Zealand and sold through P H Vickery " Vickery Motors " of Invercargill.
Engine Number 222707C Body number 79 despatched 14.10.55.

Already had some information on the car but recently came across more details.
Jim Reece an Austin Healey guy, his cars have featured on the thread, put together a Register Record of the car back in the early 1970's when involved with the Austin Healey Car Club of New Zealand.
The car was badly crashed and burnt and written off and has been the subject of a recreation by Steve Pike in Australia.
It is now in the hands of Alister Rayner with the Chassis Number " AHS3601 R ". R for recreation / replica.

Here is the AHCCNZ letterhead record of the car which had the number plate 408.032 in 1957 [ 1956 -61 plates and permanent plate DN6440 - There will have been another plate for 1961 -64 period.



Photo of the car outside P H Vickery Ltd in Invercargill in 1956 - first registered in January 1956 after shipping from England DMH's factory in October 1955



A Warrant of Fitness sticker from PH Vickery dated February 1957.



car with 408.032 plates [ 1956 - 61 ] with 4th owner Max Richards



Another photo on the 408.032 plates, with Jack Grieve in 1957



Again a photo from the 1957 -61 period with another owner / driver Peter Lawson at the 1961 Ardmore NZ International Grand Prix meeting,leading a group [ in a trio ] of cars.



More to come on the car - the accident - and the recreation.
Note ; source of images are on the images

[Milan Fistonic]

Again a photo from the 1957 -61 period with another owner / driver Peter Lawson at the 1961 Ardmore NZ International Grand Prix meeting,leading a group [ in a trio ] of cars.

This photo is from the 1961 Ultimate-Ekco Race Car Feature at Ardmore and shows Peter Lawson leading Ron Butler's Porsche and Graeme Eder's Elva-Ford (later known as the Paton-Ford)

[Roger Dowding]

" This photo is from the 1961 Ultimate-Ekco Race Car Feature at Ardmore and shows Peter Lawson leading Ron Butler's Porsche and Graeme Eder's Elva-Ford (later known as the Paton-Ford) "

Milan, thank you again for your information .. now have to find the story/ies of that 100S .. of Peter Lawson - more than I have now..
I know at that time there were 3 100S in New Zealand but need to get more details

Thanks again.
Roger