<html><body><div>This conversation is quite interesting to me as when I was interviewing Gerry Coker, he was upset when they went to the horizontal pattern. He made a point out of keeping vertical lines in the grilles of the 100 because Healeys always had vertical lines in their grilles. He was not a fan of the horizontal grilles at all. Personally, I like them on the 100 6's and the early 3000's, but that's just me and of course those horizontal lines would never have worked in the 100 grille.</div><div>   In fact I remember him saying when he was tasked with fixing the fit of the grilles on the 100 6's, he said there wasn't much he could really do as they had ruined the look already with the horizontal grille.</div><div>   If you haven't seen it, here's the interview I did back in 2008 with Gerry Coker at the AH Conclave in San Diego.  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPHbli48uLM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPHbli48uLM</a> </div><div>   Steven Kingsbury</div><div>   BN1 (Getting close to being drivable again)</div><div><br>On October 1, 2020 at 1:04 PM, Michael Oritt via Healeys <healeys@autox.team.net> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color: #3333ff;" class="gmail_default" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff;">"<span style="color: #222222;" data-mce-style="color: #222222;">So the conclusion seems to be that BL had a collection of wavy bars in</span></div>the 50s that the cut and refitted until they ran out.<span style="color: #3333ff;" class="gmail_default" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff;">"</span><div><span style="color: #3333ff;" class="gmail_default" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff;">---------------------------------</span></div><div><span style="color: #3333ff;" class="gmail_default" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff;">What a surprise....</span></div><div><span style="color: #3333ff;" class="gmail_default" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: #3333ff;" class="gmail_default" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff;">I heard that at some point the marketing people came to believe that vertical grilles were synonymous with higher class cars (Rolls, Jaguar, etc) leading to the return of up-and-down grille slats on the later cars.</span></div><div><div style="color: #3333ff;" class="gmail_default" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff;">Of course one then wonders why they ever went to horizontal to begin with.</div></div><div style="color: #3333ff;" class="gmail_default" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff;"><br></div><div style="color: #3333ff;" class="gmail_default" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff;">Best--Michael Oritt<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 3:40 PM Peter Dzwig <<a href="mailto:pdzwig@summaventures.com" data-mce-href="mailto:pdzwig@summaventures.com">pdzwig@summaventures.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote" data-mce-style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 1ex;">So the conclusion seems to be that BL had a collection of wavy bars in<br> the 50s that the cut and refitted until they ran out.<br> <br> Thanks guys for your help,<br> <br> Peter<br> <br> On 01/10/2020 19:09, Perry via Healeys wrote:<br> >  <br> > <br> > Morris<br> > <br> > Austin Healey 100-Six<br> > <br> > Sent from Mail <<a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986" data-mce-href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986</a>> for<br> > Windows 10<br> > <br> >  <br> > <br> > <br> > _______________________________________________<br> > Support <a href="http://Team.Net" data-mce-href="http://Team.Net">Team.Net</a> <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" data-mce-href="http://www.team.net/donate.html">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br> > Suggested annual donation  $12.75<br> > <br> > Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys" data-mce-href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys">http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys</a> <a href="http://autox.team.net/archive" data-mce-href="http://autox.team.net/archive">http://autox.team.net/archive</a><br> > <br> > <a href="mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net" data-mce-href="mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net">Healeys@autox.team.net</a><br> > <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys" data-mce-href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys">http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys</a><br> > <br> > Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/pdzwig@summaventures.com" data-mce-href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/pdzwig@summaventures.com">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/pdzwig@summaventures.com</a><br> > <br> <br> -- <br> <br> Dr. Peter Dzwig<br> _______________________________________________<br> Support <a href="http://Team.Net" data-mce-href="http: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