[Healeys] BJ8 Photo Album

[Rich C]

Andy,

A great set of pictures. That's the way to record all the details that will 
never be remembered otherwise.

Interesting how one fellow's opinion (horror) as to degree of decay, vs. 
another who sees this sort of decay often. Makes me think some of out 
listers have never really had to experience a truly challenging project, 
while to me these pictures show what is all too often becoming typical, yet 
restorable.

At least some previous owner hasn't had his mitts in there 25 years ago, 
screwing things up in the name of "keeping it on the road". That would be a 
horror!

All the best.

Rich Chrysler

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "andy pole" <ampole at hotmail.com>
To: <msalter at precisionsportscar.com>; <rnbmail at yahoo.com>; 
<healey.nut at gmail.com>
Cc: <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] BJ8 Photo Album


> Thanks guys
> I bougt my first BJ8 when I was 21 (#2250) and when my dad helped me tow 
> it
> back to his house, I thought he was going to throw a fit! I had gone to 
> buy
> a frogeye but ended up with  a car worse than the one I have now, 
> regardless
> to say I sold it 6 months later and its the only car I've made a profit 
> on.
> Always regretted it.
> Anyway now I'm 37 I thought I would try again, and looked all other the uk
> for something that wasnt a silly price or boxes of bits. In the end bought
> this one from New York and shipped it to the uk. As you can see by the 
> paint
> stripped on one wing it has no accident damage and never been repainted,
> however a previous owner did blow the engine up and it had a replacement 
> in
> the 70's (got original bills), it was shipped to the States as a personal
> export with black leather interior.
> Rich has pointed out the gear knob is not original, but a few other things
> seem to be the opposite of the concourse view (ie the steering column
> surrond cover and blanking cover on the other side were painted body 
> colour
> not black!).
> I will take more pictures of the interior (carpets had rotted away) seats,
> fold down rear etc. Hopefully it will look slightly better tomorrow as the
> body has been blasted and new panels are going back in (rear inner wings
> also need replacing).
> Will keep you posted.
> regards Andy
>
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