Curt,
You are way off base about Martin. He knows Austin Healeys and all about
concours. He believes in keeping Healeys on the road and has made it his
life's endeavor.
We all have our opinion what is ok to do with our cars and what is not, but
isn't that the car culture as a whole?
Happy Holidays,
Mike Brouillette
Bedford, NH
59 BT7
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Martin,
Your statements show that you know little if nothing about Austin Healey
Concours as it is currently organized and setup. We go out of our way to
encourage Austin Healeys to be driven, more so than any other marque
specific Concours group currently in existence.
In fact, our cars restored to original condition are more than capable of
handling modern roads and driving conditions, with the only limitation being
an individual owners reluctance to drive them as such. This is one reason
we allow radial tires on all Austin Healeys with a full five point credit
for a car being driven 500 miles in the 6 months prior to be judged. There
is also no deduction for using an aluminum head on a 100 since they are
virtually indistinguishable from the original externally but internally they
vastly enhance performance and reliability. Just two examples , but there
are many more.
I personally take exception to you classifying me as NOT being a car guy as
you state, just because I promote and encourage our cars to be restored as
original and to be driven. Or possibly it is you who has the issue with
Austin Healey Concours since our guidelines have a standard 50 point
deduction for replacement...* "Frames that can be visually determined to
differ from what was "correct" when the car was new."*
BTW, Kilmartin frames receive no such deduction.
Cheers,
Curt Arndt
Chairman- Austin Healey Concours Committee
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Martin Jansen <jule_enterprisesah@yahoo.com
> wrote:
> After reading various postings I realize there are two groups of people
> owning healeys. One group are what I call "Car guys" guys who love cars and
> what they can do , The second group are historians who are interested in
> Healeys as a collectible antique. collectibles are kept in museums. Car
> guys want to drive cars on today's highways with car's with today's
>technology.
> Cars today respond quickly, stop quickly and owners of these cars expect
> other cars on the road to also be able to respond in the same manner.
> Keeping a car completely original has its place but perhaps not on today's
>road.
> Modifying a desirable car doesn't hurt the value of a car if the modifications
> are done well. There is a very large market of people who enjoy a sports car
> as a car that performs and handles well on the highway.Many of you may
> remember the slogan from the 60's
> "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday!" ts always about the performance.
>
> Happy Healeying, Marty www.jule-enterprises.com
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