A.HEALEY 3000 / PERFORMANCE CARS GREAT WEST ROAD BRENTFORD
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Does anyone remember my faveorite car Dealers , the legendary Performance Cars of The Great West Rd Brentford ? ( The Chequered Flag Lancia and Lotus ? Main Agents and Sratos Racers nearby at Chiswick was Another sadly now defunct Specialist Dealers ) As a car and particularly E-Type/Healey mad kid in the 70s i would go to PCs and C.Flags Adverts in Motor Sport first , before i read anything else. There was allways something interesting that they would have for sale , and i remember a 1970-H Capri 3000GT in Aubergine with the rare Black Bonnet option in one of PCs ads . Over the years they had some Fantastic Cars pass through their showroom. Performance Cars later Advert Logo was very distictive , featureing the Co. name outlined in the shape of a Lotus Europa.
My late father owned an Austin Healey 3000 MK3 in Ice Metalic Blue , probably the best Healey Colour ( FVX 803B) which he managed to buy new in August 1964 also buying a new mini van in grey at the same time for his business from Wells Of Woodford the local BMC Dealers. I have very fond memories of his Healey and somewhere there is some great Super 8 Film of it which i must try to get on You Tube. He sold it in around 1967 ? to a friend and bought it back again soon afterwards after his fried sadly passed away. It had been almost abandoned in his friends garage and was in a bit of a state . I distinctly remember him telling me that Healeys would be one day valuable as they had recently stopped makeing them , so it must have been in either 1968 or 69 and he sold it to a local long gone garage.
I have tried almost everything to trace his old Healey ,since the mid 1970s after he died , but so far without success .His Healey had some very distinctive long stalk Spot lamps and wing mirrors on it and about 7 years ago whilst looking through an early 1969 Edition of Motor Sport , there it was for sale at Performance Cars , photographed for their Advert alongside a Sunbeam Alpine i beleive. Performance Cars sadly ceased tradeing in around ? 1990 when they sold the site for development. They had been Main MG Dealers and a Huge MG Sign was mounted on top of the roof , which was visible from quite a distance . I remember stoppiing there for a look at their stock in about 89-90 , when the business was being run down ready for closeing , it was very sad to see the place almost deserted and very few cars remained but i remember a lonely looking MGB GT sitting there.
In an effort to trace my dads Healey i did a lot of reasearch on Performance Cars to see if i could view their old Sales Records and see if they contained a reference to the Healey . P.Cars had been founded in the ( if my memory is correct late 40s or early 50s ) by a German Guy . He wemt on to be very Successfull with the Business and i was astonoshed to see how well the business did.
I managed to trace a Family member , as the Founder and his Business partner had sadly passed away , but at that time no sales records could be found. I beleive that Pc sold a lot of cars to US Forces guys stationed here in the 60s so its possible ? that a service man bought it from them and shipped it back home.
Any one else remember P.Cars ?
My late father owned an Austin Healey 3000 MK3 in Ice Metalic Blue , probably the best Healey Colour ( FVX 803B) which he managed to buy new in August 1964 also buying a new mini van in grey at the same time for his business from Wells Of Woodford the local BMC Dealers. I have very fond memories of his Healey and somewhere there is some great Super 8 Film of it which i must try to get on You Tube. He sold it in around 1967 ? to a friend and bought it back again soon afterwards after his fried sadly passed away. It had been almost abandoned in his friends garage and was in a bit of a state . I distinctly remember him telling me that Healeys would be one day valuable as they had recently stopped makeing them , so it must have been in either 1968 or 69 and he sold it to a local long gone garage.
I have tried almost everything to trace his old Healey ,since the mid 1970s after he died , but so far without success .His Healey had some very distinctive long stalk Spot lamps and wing mirrors on it and about 7 years ago whilst looking through an early 1969 Edition of Motor Sport , there it was for sale at Performance Cars , photographed for their Advert alongside a Sunbeam Alpine i beleive. Performance Cars sadly ceased tradeing in around ? 1990 when they sold the site for development. They had been Main MG Dealers and a Huge MG Sign was mounted on top of the roof , which was visible from quite a distance . I remember stoppiing there for a look at their stock in about 89-90 , when the business was being run down ready for closeing , it was very sad to see the place almost deserted and very few cars remained but i remember a lonely looking MGB GT sitting there.
In an effort to trace my dads Healey i did a lot of reasearch on Performance Cars to see if i could view their old Sales Records and see if they contained a reference to the Healey . P.Cars had been founded in the ( if my memory is correct late 40s or early 50s ) by a German Guy . He wemt on to be very Successfull with the Business and i was astonoshed to see how well the business did.
I managed to trace a Family member , as the Founder and his Business partner had sadly passed away , but at that time no sales records could be found. I beleive that Pc sold a lot of cars to US Forces guys stationed here in the 60s so its possible ? that a service man bought it from them and shipped it back home.
Any one else remember P.Cars ?
Many Thanks for the info , i have spoken to them in the past , but the car has never ( up to that time ) been listed with them . Somewhere i have the Ch.No. BJ8..... ? and also the Original Blue Owners Handbook , but not sure where ( Divorce etc). It was one of the first Ph2 models , with the Increased rear ground clearance . I remember my Dad haveing a bad accident in it , somewhere in London in approx 1968 ? he was haveing a race with someone and they hit the rear of the Healey hard , which put my Dad in Hospital with severe whip lash ( no head restraints then ) I was away that weekend with my mum and the wife of one of my dads pals turned up in their Dubonet Rosso Aston DB6 , to tell us that he was in hospital . There is a story to that DB6 as well as it had been previously owned by a notorious 60s figure .
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