[Healeys] 100M?

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In a message dated 7/10/10 11:04:45 AM, healeys-request at autox.team.net 
writes:


> Yep I read that article. No doubt the timing was to coincide with the 
> auction
> sale. Interesting debate about whether it is really a factory 100M even 
> though
> a BN1. Should provide some controversy. Obviously the claim doesn,t hurt 
> the
> auction marketing either;
> 
I don't know how many times we have to cover this same ground. 
1. We know for a fact that the Le Mans Kit was available to be installed on 
BN1s, and that DHMCo advertised that fact.
2. We know for a fact that many customers who bought their BN1s in the 
Midlands area could have had DHMCo install the Le Mans Kit either before they 
picked up the car or just after they purchased it. In one of his books, Geoff 
Healey says that he thinks there may have been as many of those 
modifications made at The Cape Works as they did after the introduction of the BN2 100Ms
3.To my knowledge, the term 100M was not used in any brochures or 
advertising until the BN2s with the kit installed as a factory option were introduced 
at Earls Court in fall 1955.

THEREFORE, we can reasonably conclude that this is an interesting car, with 
its LeMans kit installed in period by DHMCo. That certainly should help its 
value. But we also know that this is not a "100M" because the term hadn't 
been invented at the time this car had its modification kit installed.

Why have these facts and conclusions not yet penetrated the otherwise 
knowledgeable folks who continue to write about these cars is beyond me?

Cheers
gary