Sorry to come back to the car for sale. For me it looks like to be a very nice
Healey 100 BN2, restored to the taste of its owner, not more, not less. What
the owners have done with the car, that`s their matter and they may have had a
reason for doing so.
If the car has got 750 miles or 75 000 miles on the clock, I do not care. A
750 miles car could have been rusted through and through, involved in an awful
accident, burnt out, flooded, whatever. A 75000 miles car can look extremely
good, if the owners took care. If its got 75 000 miles and never was restored
but kept in excellent shape with no rust, only little wear etc. then this is a
car for one who wants to have what some call an untouched car. If the owner of
a 750 miles car decides to restore it, whatever reason he has for doing that,
its his and if he is happy with the result, I can except it.
Austin-Healeys are not Crown Jewelries and market decides about the value of
each car. A famous finance tycoon, Andre Kostolany, once said, a share is
worth the money one has just spent for it. So if there is an asking price of $
115000, the car is it worth, if there is one who spends the money for it.
So please leave it what it is, a restored low milage car, which would not
receive a gold in American Austin-Healey Concours. But in my eyes its still a
nice car.
Josef Eckert
Konigswinter/Germany
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