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Re: [Healeys] Concours judging

To: Chris Dimmock <austin.healey@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Concours judging
From: jerry wall <jwbn6hrdtp@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 07:01:42 -0500
chris,
either the red one or the blue one!
cheers,
jerry

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Chris Dimmock <austin.healey@gmail.com>wrote:

> I disagree. We are building the cars the way they generally "should" have
> been built.
> Overspray on spark plugs? Just a cost/ time saving measure. Tell me a
> professional engine builder who does that?
> Paint drips on a chassis? Upside down? Who as a professional painter would
> claim that as typical of his best workmanship??
> So - still no response to my question from all the concours critics .....
>  "which BN1 would have won a concours in around June 1953 - given there
> were 5 entrants - all were original - and all are less than 30 days old?"
> And judged by their peers.
> So - which car would win my theoretical concours?????
>
> Think about it.
> Chris
> www.myaustinhealey.com
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 05/08/2010, at 8:50 PM, Oudesluys <coudesluijs@chello.nl> wrote:
>
>  Or any other classic. Bang on!
>> Kees Oudesluijs
>> NL
>>
>> Peter Svilans wrote:
>>
>>> ................
>>> Its a different world.  In a sense, most of us are building replicas
>>> according
>>> to our own personal twenty-first century sensibilities and tastes, when
>>> we
>>> "restore" a Healey today.
>>>
>>> Best
>>> Peter
>>> Concours Advisory
>>>
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jerry wall  BN6
rowlett, tx
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