Driver Profile: Martyn Corfield

Martyn lives in Stone Staffordshire with his partner Sue and their beautiful and energetic 9 month old daughter Daisy.

A life long enthusiast for all things motoring and despite eclectic interests ranging from Edwardian, Vintage and Post Vintage Sports cars Martyn has always had a desire to own not just any “Big Healey”.
Teenage years spent messing about with often unreliable, cheap and available “scrapper” sports cars from the sixties helped Martyn to discover his lack of mechanical prowess. Despite this, a passion for Healeys has remained fuelled over the last twenty years as spectator of historic sports car events and occasional diversions to peer through the showroom window at Dennis Welch Motors at near by Yoxall.

It was not until recently, following the success of his company The Good Food Chain, Martyn was at last in a position to pursue his interest in Big Healey ownership. The focal point becoming an early 100/4 which was to be prepared, to an exacting standard, as a reconstruction of an early Special Test Car. Not just any Special Test Car though, it had to be the 1954 Endurance car, the one referred to on the plaque that can be found on the 100’S’ cars.

This particular car had always held a fascination ever since acquiring “The Story of the Big Healey” twenty odd years ago at an owner’s club event.

Preferring to drive rather than show, it was obvious for Martyn what to do with such a car once built and the lure of speed beckoned. He set about trying to regain the endurance records achieved by the original car. However, 54 years later this is not so easy in a world with limited venues for such an attempt and an abundance of regulations to conform to. Coupled with the technical challenge to build a car capable of exceeding the previous records the challenge is as daunting now as it was in the fifties, if not more so.

Not content with being just the visionary of the project, Martyn also brings to the team historical guidance from his extensive research of the original attempts and the proven administrative and organisation skills required for endurance record attempts today.

This passion looks set to run with further Healey projects already lined-up and hopeful taking Martyn finally to the race tracks.