[Healeys] 100M on ebay?

[Randy Hicks]

Oh, just to further muddy the water, my Heritage Certificate states:

"The B.M.I.H.T can confirm that this car is a genuine, factory built  
Austin Healey 100 M "Le Mans"."

Le Mans being in quotes and a space between Le & Mans.

Doesn't that help?  :-)

Randy

Randy Hicks
'56 100M "Le Mans"
'55 BN1 Dealer "Le Mans"
'62 BN7 MkII
'65 BJ8
'53 MGTD
Healey100M at gmail.com







On Nov 7, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Mr. Bill wrote:

> Ohhhhhhhh Mr. Oritt,
>
> Here I thought we had settled our discussion amiably off List with you
> stating:  "Sorry for the unnecessary conflict." and attaching a  
> picture
> of your 100 with some sort of a hardtop???
>
> I don't know why you have to be surreptitious with "some BN1 owner"  
> when
> everybody knows it's me, Bill Barnett from the South Left Coast USA or
> Mr. Bill to you.  Actually I'm glad you decided to drag this back  
> out in
> public AGAIN because I would like to ask for the collective wisdom of
> our worldwide group.
>
> In our off List correspondence I asked Mr. Oritt:  "What I originally
> questioned was how you decided that our cars should 'properly be  
> called
> a 100 Lemans' and 'calling the car an M is wrong'.  Is this your
> nomenclature?  If so, who appointed you the authority?  If not, please
> direct me to your reference and I will publicly apologize to you.   
> If it
> is to be Lemans,  which of the three spellings you have used is
> correct?"  (LeMans or Le Mans)
>
> Mr. Oritt chose to completely ignore my simple questions.  Can  
> anyone on
> our List help bail him out?
>
> Many thanks for your patience and with your help, we can put this much
> overworked terminology silliness to rest.
>
> Bill
> '53 Red Car