Dick,
This should clear things up. Words mean specific things.
*"I drove to the airport and then went through the terminal concourse to to
catch my flight, to judge an Austin Healey Concours d'Elegance."*
Cheers,
Curt
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Dick Matson <medlabinc@msn.com> wrote:
> And that pertains to concourse and concours Austin Healey . . . . how ?
>
> Oh.
>
> Oh.
>
> Was there a misspell maybe in the original post ?
>
> Dick
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Quinn, Patrick<mailto:Patrick.Quinn@det.nsw.edu.au>
> To: 'Dick Matson'<mailto:medlabinc@msn.com> ; AustinHealey
> List<mailto:healeys@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 4:20 PM
> Subject: RE: [Healeys] Fw: Our Own BN1
>
>
> G'day
>
> I mean to physically walk over something. Normally in a large railway
> station
> you walk along or through a concourse to get to the platforms.
>
> The Concise Oxford Dictionary describes concourse as "Crowd; confluence of
> things." While confluence is described as "Flowing together, uniting ..."
>
> Hoo Roo
>
> Patrick Quinn
> Sydney, Australia
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net<mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net
> >
> [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Dick Matson
> Sent: Monday, 1 February 2010 11:11 AM
> To: AustinHealey List
> Subject: [Healeys] Fw: Our Own BN1
>
> Just listening in Pat but . . what ? What is walking all over it.
>
> Dick M / Bj8
>
> G'day Curt
>
> And I thought I was the only one who knew the difference between concourse
> and
> concours.
>
> If I was to restore a car to concourse condition I could only expect people
> to
> walk all over it. If however it was concours it would be originally correct
> and very clean. Woe betide anyone who would attempt to walk all over it.
>
> Hoo Roo
>
> Patrick Quinn
> Sydney, Australia
>
>
> Wilko,
>
> I know this car well since it belonged to a friend, Phil Gallant here in
> Oceanside. He had Tom at Fourintune restore it some years ago and I looked
> at it in detail when Phil had it for sale.
>
> I was helping a friend who was looking for a very correct 100M, and this
> was
> one of the cars I recommended. My friend ended up buying a true Gold Level
> 100M with a lot of NOS and extra parts worth thousands for the same price
> as
> this car. FWIW, the asking price has tripled from when Phil sold the car.
>
> It may be concourse but it's not Concours in my opinion, albeit a well done
> Kovacs restoration.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Curt
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