British racing driver Donald Healey was involved in numerous sophisticated and interesting performance automobiles during the late 1940s and early 1950s. While best-remembered for his potent collaborations with Austin and Nash, Healey also built the Alvis-Healey, which, as one might surmise, was built on Healey’s own G-series 3-Litre chassis. Under the bonnet was an overhead-valve, 2993cc six-cylinder engine produced by one of England’s most famous manufacturers of grand touring cars, producing about 80 horsepower at 4,200 rpm delivered through a four-speed manual transmission. Bodywork, akin to that of the early 1951 Nash-Healey, was designed by Gerry Coker, later to create the famed Austin-Healey 100, and as with that car was manufactured of aluminum by the Birmingham coachbuilders Panelcraft.

Of the twenty-eight Healey Sports Convertibles built to this design on the 3-Litre chassis, only twenty-five of these were Alvis-powered, and relatively few of them survive, especially outside their home country.

The Alvis-Healey offered here was acquired by its current prominent collection from the well-known stable of Gene Ponder of Marshall, Texas, known for his impressive gathering of sports cars from all eras. Mr. Ponder acquired the car from another Lone Star State collection, which in turn had reportedly acquired it from Gerd-Rüdlinger Lang, the noted watchmaker and founder of Chronoswiss. Its well-preserved restoration is finished in dark British Racing Green over biscuit interior piped in dark green, accentuated by a handsome wood dashboard with a full complement of Smiths instrumentation and a Bluemels Brooklands steering wheel.

Charming in design and nimble and swift in performance, this lovely Alvis-Healey offers one of the finest, rarest Healey variants, to complement the Nash-Healey or Austin-Healey in one’s own fleet, or to stand on its own right as an exceptionally scarce sports car of quality and character.