Most of the “Big Healeys” we see are either beautiful restorations or rusted away completely. This 1962 3000 Mk. II seems to be right in the middle and it’s being offered for sale here on eBay. Bidding has reached $8,600 but hasn’t met the reserve. The car is located in Powder Springs, Georgia.

The seller doesn’t tell us anything about the body, but the fact that you can see metal at the bottom of the fenders puts it ahead of a lot of Healey restoration projects. I owned, tore apart and eventually sold for someone else to restore (they did) a 1961 3000 in my youth, and given the facts that the shell seems to have been designed to retain water and debris and that part of it (the center front and rear shrouds) is aluminum and the parts bolted to them are steel (google electrolytic corrosion) can make restoration of one of these cars quite daunting.

This is one of the last 3000s with side curtains, but does have the rare factory hardtop. My 1961 did also and it does change the car’s character (it can be removed and the soft top installed. Don’t be completely scared by the absence of a rear window; the originals were clear plastic (hard) and it’s not that difficult to cut and replace.

You’d have some work to do here. Good thing parts are readily available.

This car features the desired tri-carb setup although they are off the car right now, but included. Apart from the lack of a title, this looks like a fairly straightforward project–at least as far as any Big Healey is straightforward! Let us know what you think and be sure and submit any neat finds that you come across!