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Austin Healey 100S sells for £843,000
The 1953 Austin Healey 100 driven by Lance Macklin that was involved in the 1955 LeMans tragedy just sold at Bonham's for £843,000 ($1,300,000). The majority of the coverage of this sale tended to focus on that sad event, but IMO the car was historically significant in many other ways. Not just for being what Levegh's Mercedes skipped off of, but also one of the four "special development" cars that preceeded the 100S... a prototype that raced twice before at LeMans, and continued to race well into the 1960s. So, any guesses on where it's going... private collection or museum? Left as is, or restored?
A brief, interesting history of NOJ 393: [url="http://www.bonhams.com/eur/auction/19293/lot/433/"]http://www.bonhams.com/eur/auction/19293/lot/433/[/url]