Good thread.
I could relate how far I've gone to confirm a little detail of originality.
Like bugging a good friend to uncover all the huge pile of crap off his BN7
so I could drive an our each way to get into the interior with a toothbrush
and cleaner to confirm that the armacord on the rear tonneau shelf was
fastened with aluminum pop rivets! Digital photos prove it out.
Or on the same car confirming that the boot area armacord was fastened to
the rear inside boot hoop with #6 countersunk trim screws and cup washers,
and exactly where they were located. Digital photos again to put on record.
I could go on all night.
Rich Chrysler
----- Original Message -----
From: "davidwjones" <davidwjones@cox.net>
To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 12:08 PM
Subject: How far would you go?
> I've really enjoyed the thread on how everyone got into Healeys at the
> beginning. It's just the ticket for that Healey fix, here, in the dead of
> winter, here in frozen RI.
>
> -A recent post on laminating other materials onto the
> too-thin-for-concours
> modern heat shields had me thinking about some of the ........odd things I
> had
> done in the course of restoring my car for concours, and I wondered what
> others may have done, that might be considered "over the top" by the
> casual
> observer.
>
> You know, the things where if a non car enthusiast walked into your garage
> and
> saw you doing it, he's say "You're doing WHAT?!?!" --The kind of
> attention to
> detail that it might be hard to explain to anyone else not on this list.
>
> My three entries in the obsessive detail hall of fame (and I may think of
> more) are:
>
> 1) Cutting up a pair of old Wellington dress boots to make the buffers
> that go
> between the gas tank and the fuel tank straps.
>
> 2) Actually doing bodywork on the fuel tank, to make it "pretty".
>
> 3) Unable to find the correct copper split rivets for my carburetor heat
> shield, I found Identical split rivets in steel, and went about copper
> plating
> them in my garage. Using a large mayonnaise jar, a chunk of copper pipe,
> my
> battery charger, and a solution of copper sulfate, I plated the rivets
> myself
> on a bench in my garage. My neighbor came in, and upon seeing the large
> bottle
> of blue green liquid wired up and fizzing away, remarked : "I'm not even
> going
> to ask". (I have since found the proper rivets at BCS and elsewhere)
>
> ----I'm not proud. --Just a little crazy.
>
> What did YOU do ?
>
> David W. Jones
> '62 Mk II BT7 tricarb
> Cumberland, RI USA
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