Dennis sends us the first American post-war sports car - the Nash Healey.  George Mason and Donald Healey met by accident in 1949 - while crossing the Atlantic aboard the Queen Elizabeth - Healey was on his way to Detroit hoping to buy Cadillac V8 engines for the new sports car he was building.  Cadillac turned him down. Mason - running Nash-Kelvinator at the time - offered Nash Ambassador engines instead, and the Nash Healey was born out of that conversation. Engines and transmissions built in Kenosha, Wisconsin traveled to Warwick, England, where Healey mated them to his own chassis design, and the rolling assemblies were then shipped to Turin, Italy, where Pininfarina fitted the steel and aluminum bodywork and finished the car for sale.  Only about 150 cars were built across three years production.
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