First contact: Internet and more precisely eBay where I discovered it thanks to a lucky search in June 2005.

The salesman, living in Toronto, wished to part from this car, which his father had begun to restore some years earlier. He, fascinated by motorcycles, had found his unicorn, and thus needed place and money. After multiple phone conversations, e-mails, photos, documents and other things, the business ended and the car leaved North America by way of Canada.

It’s an Austin Healey 100/4 BN1 built on July 14th, 1955 and put on the road in August of the same year.

Having lived some time in Germany, it left across the Atlantic Ocean. It crossed the ocean in the other direction in August on 2005 and arrived in France on September 5th, 2005, for its 50th birthday or nearly...