Gary,
As usual, your take on this car is not only amusing but "spot on."
Cheers,
Curt
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:14 AM, <Editorgary at aol.com> wrote:
> Not to worry, since the damage has already been done. This will be bought
> by one of Canepa's high-roller clients for his wife, they will drive it on
> one California Mille and be discontented when they don't get lots of
> respect,
> get passed by the Ferraris, and wind up with back and butt pains from the
> badly redone seats. Then, because they weren't Healey folks to begin with
> (or
> they would have known better than to pay this much for this little) they
> will tuck the car in the back of their multi-car display facility for a few
> years, and eventually sell it at Silver Auctions for about $40,000 and it
> will
> wind up in the back of a third-rate "museum" somewhere in the midwest.
> Bottom line, we'll never see it again. If the restorer was, in fact,
> working with a 750 mile car stored in a living room (How do you get a car
> in and
> out of a living room, anyhow, or is this a case of a person living in his
> parent's garage with a barcalounger and tv next to the Healey and a studio
> behind or above?) then he's done a desecration and won't lose much money on
> the
> deal.
> I'll have to check it out, since I've got to go down there in a week or so,
> anyhow.
> Gary
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