[Healeys] Door Brace -

[Randall Hicks]

My Jan. 19, 1956 & Feb. 3, 1956 build BN2/100M’s both have the brace.

Randy

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> On Nov 17, 2021, at 10:12 PM, Curtis Arndt via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> DO NOT REMOVE! 
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> That bracing was original to late BN2s, and as such is absolutely correct.  It's a not well known detail, but it is how it came from the factory (Jensen).
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> Cheers,
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> Curt
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> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 7:06 PM Jean Caron via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>> Quite possibly the reason why this was done.
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>> From: Bob Spidell
>> Sent: November 17, 2021 9:03 PM
>> To: Michael Salter
>> Cc: Jean Caron; AH Mail List
>> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Door Brace -
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>> I think the doors would be prone to oilcanning without the braces.
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>> On Nov 17, 2021, at 6:21 PM, Michael Salter via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>> Jean, I  have now had an opportunity to check the doors in my low mileage BN2 and voilà there they are ... inside both doors.
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>> Must have been only on later cars because neither of my BN1s has them.
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>> On Wed., Nov. 17, 2021, 6:56 p.m. Jean Caron via Healeys, <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>> Has anyone ever run into something like this, this is what appears to be a brace that was in the driver side door in the BN2 I am currently restoring. At the top it was attached to the horizontal wood piece held there with two countersunk wood screws. At the bottom, it entered and turned to the inside and was secured with two rivets to the door bottom frame piece.
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