[Healeys] Misleading Barrett Jackson promo material on BJ8

[Dallas Congleton]

This subject has been well thrashed, but the thought comes to mind if the 
Healeys are not "correct",  how about all those other "matching numbers" 
cars with a trunk full of paper work?   Who really checks?
The sales also have another class emerging in which they are installing 
modern wheels and using the term "resto-mod" to cover a lot of other 
irregularities.
Caveat emptor.
If the buyer just wants a pretty car, or a mod, and accepts this kind of 
cost- no problem. But if the buyer is relying on the "correctness" and 
"provenance" to insure his investment, then a little prudence and self 
education may be in order, or just buy it from Barnum and Bailey..



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tomfelts at windstream.net>
To: "Jody Kerr" <jodyfkerr at gmail.com>; "F Ronald Rader" 
<f.ronald.rader at gmail.com>
Cc: "Healey List" <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Misleading Barrett Jackson promo material on BJ8


> Can't help but say this.  In term of originality, having a completely 
> different moter in a car is not quite the same as having a different paint 
> color from original----is it?
>
>
> ---- Jody Kerr <jodyfkerr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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