Description
This superbly presented low mileage, 21, 370 miles example, was first registered on 16th January 1998 and has had only 3 previous registered owners, the last 2 being in the same family and the current owner acquiring the car in 2014.
This HMC is finished in a classic British racing green metallic paintwork with an olive leather interior piped in green and matching green carpets. It has a full walnut wood veneer dashboard, with traditional white on black Smiths dials and chrome toggle switches, adjustable steering column with a wooden Mota-Lita steering wheel with a special ‘one off’ HMC boss billet cap centre, electric windows, central locking, Sony
CD Stereo, Lucas auxiliary driving lamps with stone guard covers, a black mohair soft top with matching hood Cover. Factory fitted Cat 2 Immobiliser. ‘Switchable’ after market Power Steering, fitted by Graham Holmes
The MoT is valid until 4th May 2025.
This HMC MK1V has a large history file containing bills, old MOTs and various magazine articles. All original handbooks present and correct.
The private registration number (HMC 1C) IS included in the sale.
Serious enquiries only. Vehicle located 5 mins from Junction 29 M25.
Reasonable offers considered.
A brief history of the HMC MKIV -
The Holmes Motor Company was founded in 1984 by brothers Graham and Peter Holmes in Stroud, Gloucestershire and they started building their new car which was inspired by the Austin Healey 3000.
Although the body shape was very similar to the original Healey, the car was an extremely capable modern
sports car in its own right and was widely regarded as the finest in its class, so much so that Geoffrey
Healey (son of marque founder Donald), gave the project his approval but, sadly, died soon after. The new
car would have been launched with the blessing of the Healey family had it not been for a trademark
dispute with Jensen in 1989 preventing them from using the Healey name.
Despite this draw back, the HMC MKIV as it was named, had excellent reviews from magazines such as Motor Sport and Performance Car, it was featured on Top Gear
(- details above), in March 1996 by Quentin Wilson who said ‘No Austin-Healey was ever this well built’ and specialist sports car manufacturers like Lotus and TVR should take a long, hard look at the HMC to see how it really should be done.’ The motoring press agreed that this
car was far more than an homage to the Austin Healey 3000.
The HMC were initially produced exclusively for the German market from the late 1980s up to 1995, when
a righthand-drive UK-specification model was introduced, only 178 MKIV cars were built by the Holmes brothers before production was ceased and the doors closed in June 2001.
