JQ,
Absolutely and it goes to the heart of what I said earlier, that we
always want something
more and are never happy with what we have. Most people have lost the
ability to stop
and smell the roses. We are obsessed with newer is better, the bottom
line, and how much
is it worth. Our Healeys are not part of a stock portfolio or our
retirement investment. I look
forward every year to spring and the new driving season. Sharing a warm,
sunny day with
friends at a British car show or just driving the winding back roads of
Virginia and thinking
how much people must have enjoyed the "simpler" life. I'll raise a
Guinness to that!!
Doug.
'56 BN2
> The danger with the increasing value of Healeys is that every one
> that
> owns one must now worry that the bloody thing is just too damn
> valuable
> to drive. The cost of insuring them goes up. The price of parts
> goes
> up. The need to protect them from theft goes up and one feels that
> they
> can't just bomb around in the thing and enjoy it the same way we
> always
> have. in America we think that money is everything. inflated
> values
> in homes and cars may be good for bragging rights at cocktail
> parties
> but we loose sight of the true value of little things like family,
> friends and smoking the tires at the stoplight . In this case it
> just
> adds to our worries and prevents us from enjoying ourselves.
> JQ
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