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===The Frogeye Car Company=== Keith Brading started Frogeye Car company on the [[Isle of Wight]] in the 1980s.{{cn|date=July 2022}} The first examples of these cars were restoration kits which used a ladder frame chassis to do away with the often rusted-out original body shell. Brading was known to Geoffrey Healey through a mutual friend and because he, at one stage, owned the two prototype 3000 coupes. Geoffrey Healey notes that Brading's re-design of the "Frogeye" was shortly to receive approval from Donald Healey, calling the concept "brilliant", and after some modifications, "just the vehicle to carry the Healey approval".<ref>{{cite book|title=More Healeys|first=Geoffrey|last=Healey|edition=2|date=1990|publisher=[[Haynes Publishing Group]]|pages=204–212|isbn=9780854298266}}</ref> The last sports car to have his father's approval benefited from Geoffrey Healey's direct input until his unexpected death in 1994 and the car he used is still owned by Keith Brading. Another “engineering superstar” who also contributed to the Healey Frogeye development was John Ackroyd who designed [[Thrust2]], which held the world land speed record from 4 October 1983 to 25 September 1997.<ref>{{cite book|title=Jet Blast & the Hand of Fate|publisher=Redline Books|date=2007}}</ref> The Frogeye Car Company was a sideline to Keith Brading's main business, and no cars have been manufactured since 1998.
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