[Healeys] 100M on ebay?

[robertduquette at sympatico.ca]

A heritage certificate is done without anyone seeing the car.  You just send
them a VIN and money and they print out a certificate for that car.








> CC: robertduquette at sympatico.ca; healeys at autox.team.net
> From: e-wilkins at cox.net
>
>
> Could the heritage cert. have valuable info?
>
> Are the pistons and all correct?
>
>
> On Nov 6, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Awgertoo at aol.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 11/6/2009 3:07:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > robertduquette at sympatico.ca writes:
> >
> > though, it is being advertized as:
> >
> > "1956 Austin Healey 100M Factory car with Heritage certificate ,all
> > numbers
> > matching ,100 M Registry and California clear Title."
> >
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> >
> >
> > I assume this is referring to Bill Meade's "100 M Registry".
> >
> > To my knowledge Bill does NOT maintain a registry that certifies which
> > cars are actually authentic M cars (the so-called 640). It would
> > be nice if
> > that were the purpose of the registry but in fact it serves as a
> > profit-center for Bill. Cars are listed on his Registry if they
> > register and pay a
> > fee. Some cars are no doubt real M's and some are cars that have
> > been
> > "converted to "M" specs by owners. In fact my 1954 BN1 LeMans may
> > be found
> > mentioned in the roles of Bill's registry simply because I chose to
> > send him the
> > money (I really liked the Registry grill badge!). But I was very
> > clear to
> > say that my car is simply a BN1 LeMans that had been converted to M
> > specs
> > by the original owner in about 1956-1957, though I doubt that the
> > owners of
> > all the cars on the registry may have been as scrupulous.
> >
> > I'm not being critical of Bill Meade's effort but I think his
> > "Registry"
> > may invite abuse as simply saying that a car is "On the 100 M
> > Registry" is
> > not a guarantee of authenticity. Bottomline--M=MONEY!!!
> >
> > Best--Michael Oritt