The Austin Healey is an iconic British sports car. Designed and built in Abingdon some twenty miles from where I grew up. Since it inception, and subsequent evolution, the Healey has been admired for its beautiful, organic body designed by Gerry Coker and its final gutsy 3 liter, 150 h.p. engine. The famous racing driver, Sir Stirling Moss, drove many Healeys and became a good friend of Denis Healey, The Godfather of the car. The Healey is tough and won many rallies. Here is how Sir Stirling's sister, and world famous rally driver Pat Moss, described the car.  “The Healey was noisy, it rode as if it had no springs at all, and the driver was exposed to unbearable heat emission from the engine. She coined its nickname, ‘The Pig’. No machine was more fascinating to drive.”