My Austin Healy 1962 MkII BT3000 '7
Ga yadda tsohon injiniya Keith Bailey ya zaɓi yin bikin. Bailey ya zo Ostiraliya a cikin 1964 kuma ya yi aiki a Kudancin Ostiraliya ta Woomera Missile Range, wanda shine mafi girman wurin gwajin ƙasa da sararin samaniya a duniya kuma kusan girman ƙasar Bailey ta Ingila. "Har 1972, ni injiniyan injin turbine na Rolls-Royce," in ji shi.
Duk da zama a Ostiraliya tun lokacin, Bailey yana da kyakkyawar ma'anar kyawun Ingilishi kamar wannan ƙirar. An yi amfani da shi ta injin silinda shida na layi na 2912 cc wanda ke iya yin babban gudun 112.9 mph (181.7 km/h), saurin 0 zuwa 100 km/h a cikin daƙiƙa 10.9 da amfani da mai na 23.5 mpg (12 l/100 km) . ). Wannan shine kawai Austin Healey 3000 tare da carburetors SU HS4 sau uku.
Jensen Motors ne ya kera jikin motar wasan motsa jiki na Biritaniya kuma an hada motocin a masana'antar sarrafa motoci ta Burtaniya da ke Abingdon. 11,564 MkII model aka gina, wanda 5096 sun kasance BT7 MkIIs. Mutane da yawa sun yi tsere a duk faɗin duniya har ma sun yi takara a Bathurst. Sun sayi sabon $1362, amma Bailey ya sayi nasa a $1994 akan $17,500.
An shigo da motar daga Amurka tare da wasu masu karbar Brisbane guda biyu. Bailey ya ce "Amurka ita ce mafi kyawun wurin siya su saboda yawancinsu sun je can." “Yana cikin yanayin da ya dace. Motar hannun hagu ne kuma dole in canza shi, wanda ba shi da wahala sosai tunda duk an kulle. Domin Ingilishi ne, duk ramuka da kayan aiki sun riga sun kasance don sitiyatin dama, amma dole ne a canza dashboard."
Bailey ya yi alfahari cewa ya yi yawancin ayyukan da kansa. Koyaya, kyawawan fenti mai sautin biyu da fale-falen an yi su ta hanyar masu gyaran gyare-gyare na Barci Beauty's Brisbane. Maidowa daidai ne har zuwa asalin Luca magneto, wipers, ƙaho, haske da janareta. Kamfanin na Birmingham motoci na lantarki sau da yawa ana kiransa Yariman Duhu saboda yawan gazawarsa, amma Bailey ya kasance gaskiya.
"Wannan bai bar ni ba har yanzu," in ji shi. "Mutane sukan yi wa Lucas wulakanci - saboda kyawawan dalilai na tsammani - amma jiragen sama da yawa sun yi amfani da su. "Bani da tabbas akan kwanakin nan."
