Nash-Healey Le Mans Coupé

Vehicle Overview

The Nash-Healey Le Mans Coupé was introduced in late in 1953. It was a handsome new coupé model designed by Pininfarina. It was more than an honorary title, as Nash-Healeys had competed in the grueling Le Mans 24 Hour race since 1950, when Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton entered a prototype model in the famed French endurance race. It finished fourth of 29 to cars complete the race. Clothed in lightweight aluminum bodies, there were four of these racers, which had Nash Ambassador engines, upgraded with aluminum high-compression heads, special manifolds and twin SU side-draft carburetors. Stylistically, however, the Nash-Healey Le Mans Coupé is the culmination of Pininfarina’s concept, a substantially different design that traded the convertible’s top-down flair for the elegance and integrated design of a coupe designed by a master.