The Jensen-Healey

During the year of 1967, the very last Austin-Healey 3000 rolled down the assembly line at the BMC factory in Abingdon, UK, ending fifteen years of succesful production. Almost immediately, Donald and Geoffrey Healey began thinking about their next sportscar. During December of 1970, BMC's rights to the Healey name was terminated, and the Healey's began working on the design of their new sportscar with Kjell Qvale, the new owner of Jensen.

At that time, the Jensen company was struggling, and welcomed the idea of producing a sportscar with Donald Healey and his son Geoffrey. With the help of Barry Bilbie, Alfred Vickers, and Bill Heynes, among others, the first Jensen-Healey was introduced at the 1972 Geneva Motor Show.

A total of 10,501 MkI and MkII Jensen-Healey's were built by the time production ceased in 1976.