[Healeys] NOJ391

[Wm. Severin Thompson]

No, neither Geoff nor Roger were mistaken.  Roger and Geoff personally
examined the car in forensic detail for hours on end, independently, 6
months apart from each other. So, one was not influencing the other. 

As far as I know Joe's conclusion is based on paper records where the car
was listed as "written off". 

WST



-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Salter [mailto:msalter at precisionsportscar.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:54 PM
To: 'Wm. Severin Thompson'
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Healeys] NOJ391

Severin, I'm confused:
First below you state below: 
"In a letter, dated March 10, 1994, Geoff Healey wrote to me, "Fred (Hunter)
ought to give you (me) a large bag of gold for this production as it has
probably increased the value of his car by many thousand dollars". The
average price of a 100 S can vary quite a bit, due to condition and history,
but it's clear that by documenting the rediscovery of NOJ 391 underneath the
identity of Fred's 100S took it from a $150,000 car, to the $400,000 it sold
for".
Yet in his May 2007 article in Healey Marque Joe Jarick seems to be fairly
convincing in his argument that NOJ291 (SPL224B) and AHS3804 were entirely
different cars.
Was Geoff mistaken when he examined Fred's car?

Michael Salter
100 (1953)
AHX12 (1953)
Bugeye (1961)
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