On Monday, we presented this week’s shifter and asked you to identify the make and model of the vehicle whence it came. Repeat winner King of Eldorado was able to identify the shifter as the Austin-Healey 3000′s stick.
We tested the Mark II 3000 featured here in our March 1963 issue. Saddled with a portly 2465-pound curb weight and a so-so 167 lb-ft of torque on tap, the 3000 took an anemic 17 seconds to dispatch the quarter-mile. The roadster’s top speed of 110 mph wasn’t super impressive, either, but the Austin-Healey at least had all of the qualities one traditionally associates with wind-in-the-face sports cars.
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