To leave it as it is, the car will be too expensive. As there is no real value
in a car which looks awful (have seen and touched the car last year) as it is
today, I presume the owner wants to bring it back to drivable condition. And I
am sure the new owner knows what he will do with it. Any way then its his car
and his decision. Perhaps he may have sleepless nights, perhaps not. But why
shall we care? We can`t influence him.
Anyway we may need to await his decision, perhaps we never see the car again,
when it goes into a private collection.
Josef Eckert
Germany
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Von: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at
autox.team.net] Im
Auftrag von Oudesluys
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. November 2011 16:41
An: m.brouillette at comcast.net
Cc: Healey List
Betreff: Re: [Healeys] Lot No: 433
This car has such a stunning history that in my view it should be left
largely as is but made in a car that can be driven in events that it was
designed, build, improved, modified for. No paint just restore rot and repair
mechanicals.
Kees Oudesluijs
NL
Op 23-11-2011 16:29, m.brouillette at comcast.net schreef:
> Interesting question as also brought up by the auction house is if you owned
this car, to what period would you restore this car if you did? Would it be
brought back to the original 1953 or the 1955 iteration? Nice problem to have
if you were made of money...
>
> Mike Brouillette
> 59 Bt7
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Felts"<tomfelts at windstream.net>
> To: "Jose Vicente Vargas"<jvvmusme at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Healey List"<healeys at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 9:52:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Lot No: 433
>
> The only reason I asked was that this appeared to be a "prototype" leading
to the 100S--------but not "technically" one of the 52 100S's.
>
> It was listed as "1953-55 Austin-Healey Special Test Car/100S Prototype
Sports-", and they said "As part of his original Austin-Healey Hundred
production agreement with Leonard Lord of the British Motor Corporation,
specialist constructor Donald Healey had undertaken to produce four Special
Test Cars for racing and record breaking"
>
> So, it is a historic and very valuable car, but my question was --was it
truly one of THE 52 (I believe) 100S models that we hear so much about.
>
> No problem either way--it is a valuable car.
>
> tom,
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