Patrick,
You started this. Back to victoria for you...!
Bill Lawrence
> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:41:27 -0500
> From: kentmclean@comcast.net
> To: healeys@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] E bay
>
> Patrick Quinn wrote:
> > I just have to keep reminding you blokes that the cars you own are not
"REAL
> > Healeys", they are Austin-Healeys.
> >
> > While the Austin-Healey 100 is most certainly the purest to the original
> > design it is still an Austin-Healey.
>
> But for one brief, shining moment, the car stood on a stand at Earl's Court
in
> 1952 as a Healey 100 -- no hyphen, no Austin. Then Leonard Lord got to DMH,
and
> it became an Austin-Healey. So the Healey 100, at least that one example, is
a
> "REAL Healey". The thousands that followed are Austin-Healeys. I have one of
the
> rare non-M models. :)
>
> --
> Kent McLean
> '56 100 BN2
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