[Healeys] For Sale: 1959 Austin-Healey Sprite (AN5LXXX) : Registry : The Austin-Healey Experience

[i erbs]

It does look like new. At first I thought it was model as it's hard to find
any object to
provide scale
Ira Erbs
Portland,OR
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          BT7 engine and disk brakes


1967 MGB  [image: MG]

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. Mario Andretti
Please excuse random auto corrects and misspelled words


On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 8:14 AM Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:

> Another "245 Miles since complete Ground up Nut-and-Bolt Restoration!"
>
> ... and he fooled the 'Condition Report' meter (or flat out lied; I don't
> know how this 'meter' thing is calculated).
>
> I'm starting to see a trend: Cite 'number of miles since restoration'
> instead of actual miles on the car.  Listing both would be fine, but if
> this car has 300K miles in a rust-inducing environment that would be
> significant no matter how well the chassis was painted/powder-coated.
> This reminds me of the the 'Austin-Healey 100M (LeMans)' deflection,
> which isn't exactly truth in advertising (and I've noticed reading
> comprehension ain't what it used to be).
>
> Oh, and what does 'Concord' mean?  'Concour[sic] quality' is subjective;
> if it was judged let us know, otherwise don't associate it with Concours.
>
>
> On 5/23/2019 6:01 AM, Rossm wrote:
>
>
> https://www.autotrader.ca/a/austin-healey/sprite/concord/ontario/5_39433907_on20090605131227878/
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 22, 2019, at 22:49, Jean Caron <
> vintage_roadster_restoration at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Given the money one likely spends restoring one, I would say that
> $25000.00 would be near the low end of the asking price. I am quite certain
> that a decent restoration would set you back at least $25 to $30K.
>
>
>
> Jean
>
>
>
> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for
> Windows 10
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of Bob Spidell
> <bspidell at comcast.net>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 22, 2019 11:18:27 PM
> *To:* Healeys
> *Subject:* [Healeys] For Sale: 1959 Austin-Healey Sprite (AN5LXXX) :
> Registry : The Austin-Healey Experience
>
>
> OK, couple of things:
>
> - are nice Bugeyes *really *going for $25K now (I know it's asking)?
>
> - first time I've seen this in a description:
>
>      "Mileage listed reflects miles driven since restoration and they
> change often as this car is driven almost daily." - seems a bit
> disingenuous to me
>
> https://www.ahexp.com/registry/1959-Austin-Healey-Sprite-AN5LXXX.38633/
>
> Bob
>
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