1956 Austin-Healey 100M (BN2) Le Mans Roadster

• Factory-built Austin-Healey 100M Le Mans model
• Recorded in the Worldwide Le Mans 100M Registry
• Matching chassis and engine numbers
• Restored in 2003
• Converted from left- to right-hand drive
• Engine professionally rebuilt in 2013 (circa 4,900 miles ago)

Despatched on 10th March 1956 to Canada, 'YAS 225' is a 'matching numbers' car and one of the 640 'factory' 100M (Le Mans) models built, as confirmed by the accompanying BMIHT Certificate. The latter records the original colour scheme as Healey Blue and White, with Blue trim and matching hood, and lists a heater, laminated windscreen and louvred bonnet as fitted equipment.

This car is recorded in the Worldwide Le Mans 100M Registry (with a factory registration). The majority of the features identifying it as a factory-built 100M are still present; as well as the matching engine and chassis numbers, the separate and correct body number is visible on the boot, the louvred bonnet (a 100M-only feature), and the body combings. It also has what appear to be its original pair of SU H6 carburettors. The 100M's cold air box intake has been lost at some point (the car now has an ITG filter and stub stacks to improve performance slightly).

The current vendor has owned this rare and desirable factory-built 100M Le Mans since 2003 when he purchased the car from Gerald Stevenson. Gerald, who sadly died in 2025, was a well-known Midlands-based Austin-Healey restorer and winner of several Austin-Healey Club UK concours awards. It is believed that Gerald found the car in North America sometime around 1998.

Gerald restored the car for our vendor in 2013, generally to original specifications but incorporating some 'modernisations' to make it more driveable (disk brakes from a later Austin-Healey 3000; high-torque starter motor; electronic ignition; seat belts, etc). The car is now right-hand drive. The engine was rebuilt by marque specialists John Chatham Motors in 2013 after a crankshaft failure. A photographic record of the restoration comes with the car together with a file of service receipts, MoT certificates, etc covering the period of the vendor's ownership. Since 2013 he has driven the car approximately 4,900 miles and reports that it runs and drives well. Offered with a V5C Registration Certificate.