[6] For a time Manney worked in sales at Jim Barlow's International Motors before the start of his writing career.
[7] Through the early 1950s Manney was racing cars in the US, driving a Crosley Hotshot (eventually supercharged), a Siata 300 BC and a Deutsch Bonnet.
[8] He built a Crosley-based special called "Georgette-the-Racer", which he raced without much success and whose body was recycled into Chet Lancaster's Georgette.
[7]: 176 Later that same decade Manney relocated to Europe, where the highlight of his racing career was his appearance in the 1957 Mille Miglia in an Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce.
[13] For the magazine's April issues he began to contribute a series of road tests of "vehicles" such as a roller-coaster car, a pogo stick, and a motorized skateboard, which review included a picture of Manney in a full suit of medieval armor.
[14] They went on to have three children: Henry Newman Manney IV, Patrick Gregory Jude, and Mary Cecilia Alexandra.
[21][22][23][24] Apart from automobiles and motorcycles, Manney's interests included baseball, classical and dixieland music, opera, and ballet.
[25] A joint funeral for Manney and Statz was held on 18 March 1988 at Our Lady Queen of Angels Church in Newport Beach, California.
[26] Henry Manney was ever the gentleman, joking, chatting, putting people at ease, and leaving a trail of amusement and good humor.
Reviews of local food, wine, hotels, and other travel-related bits were written with a sense of wit and humor that nobody in the motor press world has ever repeated.