Michael,
I totally agree with your assessment here, it really does not matter what is
incorrect with this car, what matters is that someone will hopefully purchase
it and get it back on the road. This will afford the seller to keep selling
great cars and help the vintage car community. On June 19th the owner of Hyman
Ltd., Mark Hyman made a presentation in Washington against the proposed 25%
tariff that the Government wants to put in place when importing cars or car
parts. He presented, along with other interested parties, to the Department of
Commerce as to why this was a bad idea and that the vintage car business is a
$180 billion industry at the moment. I believe that we need more Mark Hyman in
our community, even if the cars he sells are not quite to the Concours level we
expect.
By the way, I had looked at a BT7 restored, actually over restored by your
friend at an RM auction in Arizona several years ago and I pointed out to the
person who was with me that the trunk seal was missing and now it would become
a difficult task to fit one and make it all fit. A lady was nearby, turned out
to be the sellers wife, simply told me that it did not rain in California, I
just shook my head and walked away.
Jean
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From: Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of Michael MacLean
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Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2018 1:44:16 PM
To: Bob Spidell; Randall Hicks
Cc: Healey List
Subject: Re: [Healeys] 1956 Austin-Healey 100M
I think you are all missing the point here. This car is not going not be
bought by any Healey expert. It is not even aimed at us. The person that buys
this car will be looking at it as an investment. He probably will be buying
his first Healey. Unless he has a Healey expert inspect the car first, he is
going to be surprised at the first Healey event he attends when they pick the
car apart. A recently deceased Healey restorer friend of mine that sold four
100M cars at auction houses like Barret-Jackson and RM auctions constantly
would regale me with stories of Healey "experts" picking his restoration apart
before the auction with no intention or resources to buy the car. My friend
used to complain about these Healey "experts" mouthing off about what is wrong
with the car such as it being over restored. My friend used to chrome some
small parts that would take the most wear such as the bracket that the hood
prop fit into when you open the bonnet because the paint would be scratched
almost immediately the first time it was used. He used to get grief over
little things like that. The fact is most of the "real" buyers of his cars
knew nothing about Healeys. Most of them had been drinking all day before the
auction started and the auction house facilitated this on a regular basis.
Despite his "over restored' method of producing these cars he would regularly
pull in up to $250K on his 100M restorations. He also was the only restorer at
the auction that would guarantee his cars mechanically for one year after
purchase and traveled to Florida one time to "fix" a car that a woman bought
just to impress guests that were coming from England. She had had trouble
starting the car. When he got there he had to explain how the manual choke
worked and the car started first time. These are the people that buy these
cars. Lots of money and no interest in knowing the finer points of our cars.
It's just a nice shiny object that they want. Unfortunately this is typical of
the majority of auction customers. Hence the over inflated prices of our cars
that most of us could never get or or try with a good conscience to. OK, off
my soap box for now. You guys can go back to the finer points to argue.
Mike MacLean
On Thursday, August 2, 2018 10:38 AM, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>
wrote:
Odd choice of color change, IMO. Black/red is a rarer combination for an M
(though it wouldn't be my favorite). If I was going to go with a non-original
scheme, I'd go with Florida Green over white, which I think is absolutely
stunning (and shows in some of the selling prices I've seen).
Any chance this is a 'counterfeit;' i.e. one of the cars where the BMIHT cert
was 'shopped' by an unscrupulous restorer (there was an infamous case where
someone submitted a series of VINs, looking for one with the 'shipped with
louvred bonnet' comment). As I mentioned, one level of '100M Registry'
certification only requires the BMIHT cert.
Bob
On 8/2/2018 6:23 AM, Randall Hicks wrote:
Trying it again. Message may have been too big.
As I understand it, as early as autumn 1953 "Le Mans modifications" and
?Special Tuning equipment" parts were available from the DHMC. These could be
bought outright, through dealers or DHMC installed. According to Piggott?s
Austin-Healey 100 in Detail, the P280 Le Mans Kit (as a complete package) was
released in October 1955. If others have documentation showing different, I
would be very interested is seeing it.
Secondly, OEW duotone 100M were only done in OEW/Black with Black trim. There
was no OEW/Lobella with blue trim as a standard factory option for the 100M.
However, remember that 100?s could be ordered in special color or primer.
This particular car, BN2L/232949, was originally a Black/Reno Red with Black
interior trim and hood. See attached BMIHT Certificate.
I looked at the car in 2008 or 2009 (?) when it was offered for sale by Jerry
Bennsinger (OH). It was all OEW with blue trim at that point and I passed for
many reasons.
Randy
Randy Hicks
Chairman, Austin-Healey Concours Registry Committee
AHCA 100 Registrar
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