<div dir="ltr">DO NOT REMOVE! <div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Curt</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 7:06 PM Jean Caron via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal">Quite possibly the reason why this was done.</p>
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<b>Sent: </b>November 17, 2021 9:03 PM<br>
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<b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:vintage_roadster_restoration@hotmail.com" target="_blank">Jean Caron</a>;
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Healeys] Door Brace -</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I think the doors would be prone to oilcanning without the braces.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jean, I  have now had an opportunity to check the doors in my low mileage BN2 and voilà there they are ... inside both doors.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Must have been only on later cars because neither of my BN1s has them.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed., Nov. 17, 2021, 6:56 p.m. Jean Caron via Healeys, <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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