[Healeys] Misleading Barrett Jackson promo material on BJ8

[dwflagg]

The man has it right. Thanks Jody.......................

 
> Hey Folks,
> 
> I think that people are losing the gist of the original email. It's
> not really the car or the restoration that's being calledinto 
> question
> as much as the advertising for said car. I've seen Tanner 
> restorations
> and they are gorgeous, but they aren't accurate. And the issue is 
> that
> they are being advertised as such.
> 
> Now I've done many non-original things over the years. From basic
> upgrades, to working with the parts that are available to major 
> "hot
> rod" modifications. (my favorite was a Chevy LS motor in a 944, man
> that was a sweet drive). And I don't care what anyone else does to
> their car in terms of modifications, unless they advertise it as
> original.
> 
> You'd think I was nuts if I put a Porsche 944 on the block with a
> Chevy Ls1 motor in it an called it original, as would most of the
> motoring world. But, when someone advertises a car as concours
> certified and it's not the same colour as it was when it left the
> factory, then there is something to question.
> 
> So, it's not the car, but how it's advertised. And the issue with
> Barrett-Jackson is that british cars are such a small segment of 
> what
> they do that the company, vendors and consumers may not always know
> what they are getting (short of it being beautiful).But, if they
> advertise it as one thing, and it's really another, then that's 
> fraud.
> And that's the probem. Advertise a Tanner car as being from him and
> being great, but don't advertise it as concours when it's not.
> 
> Now my AH will be concours because I want it to be and I've never 
> had
> a gold certified car before. I don't want someone's work to be 
> paraded
> above mine because some false advertising dictated so.
> 
> Cheers!
> Jody
> 
> 
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