Big Healey

Big Healey is a 1996 electro-mechanical (EM) re-themed conversion for 2 players, named after the Austin Healey automobile (the '3000' model debuted in March 1959 with a 3-liter, 2,912cc six-cylinder engine). Rather than an original design, it began life as Williams' 1975 'Pat Hand' and was converted by Godfried Klep, who also created the new artwork; the spinning disk on the playfield was reused from a Bally 'Fireball Classic'. Only one unit is confirmed to exist.

Gameplay features three flippers and two pop bumpers, with the playfield's spinning disk operating continuously throughout the game. The coin mechanism was built to accept old Dutch Gilders, and a replay credit wheel is mounted in the backbox -- details that reflect its origins as a custom conversion for the European collector/carnival scene rather than a mass-produced factory title.

As a one-off conversion built on a 1970s Williams base, Big Healey is less a mystery machine than a documented custom project, but it remains a rare curiosity: with only a single confirmed example, it offers pinball collectors and historians an unusual glimpse into the world of independently re-themed EM machines.