There's a shibboleth among the patched-elbow, tweed jacket, sports-car crowd that Donald Healey only cared about his "big" cars, like the fast and fabulous Austin-Healey 100. But Healey and the ...

Also in 1959, an odd-looking British import landed on stateside shores. It was over seven feet shorter and two feet narrower than the Series 62 Caddy—and scarcely more than a quarter of its weight.

There's a shibboleth among the patched-elbow, tweed jacket, sports-car crowd that Donald Healey only cared about his "big" cars, like the fast and fabulous Austin-Healey 100. But Healey and the ...