[Healeys] It's time to let it go

[Jim Ryan]

Speaking of themes...

That BJ 7 I bought in 1974 was stolen a week after I got it, no insurance.3
months later I had moved and was getting ready to go look at an MGB for
sale when I thought I would give the Boston police one more call. They said
they were glad to hear from me because they found the car a month ago, but
because I had moved they had no way to get ahold of me. So I took a bus and
hitched a ride out to Groton Massachusetts where I found it sitting at a
gas station. Funny thing was,  it was also full of camping equipment, that
wasn't there when it got stolen. Everything was in the car my tools,
nick-nacks, the only thing that was damaged was the trunk lock and the
ignition. I guess they would just turn the battery off to stop it, then
turn it on to start it up.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 12:02 PM Christopher Moog via Healeys <
healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

> What is this a running theme. I purchased a BJ7 in the mid 1990s. Started
> restoring. Moved several times. When I retrieved it from a rental garage
> (four years ago after having stored it five years) the interior had been
> stolen. It was in separate boxes waiting for me to finish the body. So now
> I have no seats, carpets, door cards or interior trim. It was all leather
> and worth several grand. That took the steam out of me finishing the car.
>
> I'm retiring this spring so I hope to put the time (and money) into get it
> done. Well see if this happens or if I too end up selling and enjoying a
> different car. Though I could give it to a 20 something nephew has the
> skill to finish it. He is not yet shown interest in something like that,
> he's more into mid-80s pick-up trucks. But tastes change.
>
> Good luck with the paring down of projects. Life gets shorter and we all
> have to decide what we want to spend our time doing. Driving a Bugeye is a
> lot more fun to most people than restoring a car.
>
> On 10/14/2022 9:10 AM, Jim Ryan wrote:
>
> Sorry, fat fingered that last email.
>
> What I was going to say was how similar your story is to mine. I bought a
> BJ 7 in 1974, never really fully restored it as I wanted to, and neither of
> my son's wanted it. So I ended up selling it for what I could get about
> four years ago and picked up a little Bugeye driver. I still have it and in
> some ways enjoying it more than the big Healy.
>
> Anyway, what part of New Hampshire are you in? I'm on the Seacoast.
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 9:06 AM Jim Ryan <ryan at jimryan.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey Kent,
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 3:32 PM Kent McLean <kentmclean at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I've owned my 1956 100 since April of 1974. I bought it with the
>>> intention of restoring it, but life has gotten in the way and it is still
>>> waiting for my attention. It is with a heavy heart that I've resigned
>>> myself to passing along the dream.  Contact me off-list, subject line BN2,
>>> and I'll give you the details. First detail: it is located in New
>>> Hampshire, USA. The list has first dibs; if it doesn't sell here, it goes
>>> to eBay.
>>>
>>> Kent McLean
>>> '56 100 and '60 Bugeye
>>>
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