[Healeys] 100M Bonnets

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In a message dated 6/19/11 2:14:15 PM, greylinn at ozemail.com.au writes:


> OK Gary - but were ONLY vehicles destined for "M" treatment fitted with
> louvred bonnets at the factory? I would have thought other customers could
> specify this on standard cars.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Peter
> 
No, it's the other way around. Only vehicles fitted with louvred bonnets 
are considered "100M" cars. What we don't know is whether ALL cars that 
received louvred bonnets got the remainder of the modifications in the LeMans 
package. What we're saying is that all we're sure, by definition, all 100Ms had 
louvred bonnets, but we're not sure that all louvred bonnet cars had 100M 
performance options. To my knowledge, no one has been able to come up with any 
documentation that indicated how a dealer, and/or a buyer, specified that 
they wanted to buy a 100M.
And if you wanted just the LeMans modifications without the louvred hood 
and two-tone paint job, you could just go to your dealer and order the 
package. It arrived from DMHCo in a box, and the dealer installed the parts on your 
car. Simple as that. No records kept that tracked how many of these kits 
were shipped (Geoff Healey estimated in one of his books that the number may 
have been around 1,200 to 1,500) and there's no way of connecting a kit to a 
specific car.
 That's why, though we know that there were 640 cars shipped from the 
factory with louvred bonnets, we don't know how many cars in the world had LeMans 
modifications installed.
Gary