[Healeys] RM Auction

[David Porter]

Lot 143 at Gooding's on Sunday.. an original low mileage Healey BJ8.. if
that is better suited to ones tastes..
Dave

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-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of editorgary at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 1:12 PM
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] RM Auction

Just looked through the RM online catalog. There is going to be some
seriously
great metal at that auction. I haven't actually attended the auction in the
past several years, but the downtown location and visibility of the cars out
on the harborside plaza in Monterey makes that a must see on Thursday or
Friday afternoon or early evening.
About the only question I have on that red over silver over chrome Healey
100M
(assuming it has the paperwork to prove it is a real 100M) is the estimate,
which seems a scootch high. But it will sell, and someone will drive it on
one
of the big-buck tours, and then it will be pushed to the back of the garage
for a few years, and we'll see it at auction again after that. I'd guarantee
we'll never ever see this car at one of the Healey events or, perish the
thought, at a local Healey club tour.
But, it is one more Healey on the road, and as long as someone keeps
building
them, parts will remain available and people will remember what the cars
look
like.
As for Mr. Rocke being put off by club guys who want to prove to their
friends
that they know a lot about the cars by criticizing his restoration, that
just
comes with the territory. I hang out sometimes around the Jaguars, MGs, and
Mercedes and the "experts" on those marques do the same thing at auctions.
What's fun is to listen in on their conversations and see if you can catch
them in errors.
g.


Gary Anderson
Editor-in-Chief, The Star Magazine
Mercedes-Benz Club of America
Editor at Large,
Austin-Healey Magazine
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