Barrie,
You make it sound as if the only factor in making this decision is the owner's
wishes. There's more to the restore/resto-mod decision. The condition could be
pristine-original, to-far-gone-to-restore or one of 10,000 gradiations
in-between. Where's the line between this car gets restored, this car gets
left alone and this car get's modified? That's a hard one...
Yes, agreed, people lean more to one side than the other and given the same
car, same situation, same budget, may or may not make the same decision. I
like to think; Some people buy a car because it's a candidate for restoration
while others look for cars to resto-mod, because that's what they like to do
and part of the equasion is getting the most value/cost result. I hope and
pray, no one would take a numbers matching car and drop in a small block V8.
All,
The problem with basing a restore/resto-mod discussion on this "750 mile
original BN2" are the assumptions the write-up is asking us to make. We can't
discuss what should have or shouldn't have happened on this car. I don't think
we know the real history. Clearly, the "story" and the results don't make
sense.
There's some fabrication going on here (pun intended). We just don't know how
much.
Greg
65BJ8
--- On Fri, 6/17/11, Barrie Robinson <barrie@look.ca> wrote:
> From: Barrie Robinson <barrie@look.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] FW: Original 750 Mile BN2
> To: "Curt/Nancy Arndt" <cnaarndt@gmail.com>
> Cc: healeys@autox.team.net
> Date: Friday, June 17, 2011, 1:54 PM
> Curt,
>
> I stand my ground! You either like to keep things
> original or you
> don't - akin to being a little bit
> pregnant. My first category is
> those who want an original car - NOT an overblown, chrome
> plated,
> hand rubbed 200 times paint jobs a la Leno. I am/was
> the first
> example in that everything was restored to original finish
> and colour
> - no extra chroming, no new modern wiring, no non-period
> improvements
> (unless had to be). As to Leno and such, they have a
> lot to answer
> for - seeing old classics with paint jobs that cost more
> than a new
> car is just an exhibition of $$$$$$. I suppose if
> they got
> Michelangelo's David they would give him a jock strap in
> black satin
> or an Armani suit !! Actually, no they
> would not do that but they
> would have it soda blasted to take the dust etc off!
>
>
>
> At 01:19 PM 6/17/2011, Curt/Nancy Arndt wrote:
> >Barrie,
> >
> >With all due respect this is not a "black or white"...
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