[Healeys] healey ID tag on ebay

[rrengineer @dslextreme.com]

It has been off the DMV rolls for 35 years.  There has been no record of it
all that time.  Since DMVs in the US have been computerized, any record that
old no longer exists.  I see no problem and it won't be the first time he
has done this.  ALL the restorers that sell at auction do this.  How many
big Healey project cars do you think are left any way?  The endless supply
by Tanner and others has to come from somewhere.  A restorer looking for a
higher profit margin takes this route all the time and sells it to the kind
of buyer you see at the auctions that knows nothing of Healeys, except it is
a pretty, shiny car his young girlfriend wants.  After they figure out the
kind of work it takes to keep a car like this running, it goes back on the
market, hopefully to someone that can appreciate and for a better price.
Mike MacLean
56 BN2
60 AN5

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:

> Won't that be problematic if the car has previously been 'officially'
> scrapped?
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> bs
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> Bob Spidell - San Jose, CA
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> O.K., let me end all this speculation.  I told a Healey restorer friend of
> mine about the tags and he bought them both with the "buy it now" option.
> Don't be surprised if you see them at RM or Barret Jackson sometime in the
> future with a Heritage certificate and looking just like the car that they
> were on originally.  I think I would rather see a Healey resurrected from
> an
> ID plate in it's original form than just to disappear completely.  And
> trust
> me, this guy is a top notch restorer so maybe it will be a pheonix after
> all.
> Mike MacLean
> 56 BN2
> 60 AN5