Big Healey healed

2022 HEALEY BY CATON

- JAMES FOSSDYKE

NOT ALL RESTOMODS are created equal. Some take a classic car and simply add a few mod cons; others go further, making wholesale changes to the engine, suspension and even the bodywork. Engineering firm Envisage has developed the Healey by Caton, a redesign of the 1950s Austin-Healey 100 roadster that has new skin and extensive changes under that skin, too.

New body panels have been created by 3D scanning the original donor car, then smoothing out the rough edges. There are fewer panel gaps and those that remain are tidier, while all the external hinges have gone, as have some of the vents and handles. And that's before we get onto the LED headlights that actually illuminate the road ahead, or the gorgeous wraparound aero screen.