[Healeys] Mind if I Rant?

[Keith Pennell]

WOW  But I hope he got an allowance for the missing headlight rim.


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>
To: healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Fri, Jul 12, 2019 10:08 pm
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Mind if I Rant?

 Well, since we're sharing 'baby pictures,' here's one of the BN2 my dad found in the local newspaper's classifieds.  He got a pretty good deal on it. Bob
  On 7/11/2019 3:48 PM, Charles Schott wrote:
  
 
 Mike, 
  That's a very aggressive project you're undertaking. Here is what my 100 BN1 looked like when I got it. 
  Regards, 
  Charlie Schott 
   From: "Mike MacLean" <rrengineer.mike at att.net>
 To: healeys at autox.team.net
 Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2019 3:18:58 PM
 Subject: [Healeys] Mind if I Rant?
 
  I am beginning to understand what a restorer friend of mine once told me.  He said he could restore three BJ8 cars in the time it took to do a 100.  Virtually no parts I have bought from the usual suspects for my BN2 are easy to install.  Nothing fits like it was made for the car.  This morning I made an attempt to bolt up the two bump stop boxes over the rear axle.  None of the holes in the part lined up with the holes in the body above the rear axle.  I will have to auger out at least three of the holes in the bump stop box to get all four bolts in.  This car is fighting me every step of the way.  I guess it's like my restorer friend who has since passed told me when he sold me that rolling frame with a few body panels on it, "Go ahead buy the car, it will give you a reason to live".  I am beginning to understand what he meant.  Half the time I am pulling my hair out and inventing new curse words, but I go out to that garage everyday and try to accomplish something on the car, even if I end up beating my head against the wall, I keep coming back.  Rant over. Mike MacLean  
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