<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Curt is correct. If the head is truly “indistinguishable” from original, there will be no deduction.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Randy<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 18, 2021, at 11:03 AM, Curtis Arndt <<a href="mailto:cnaarndt@gmail.com" class="">cnaarndt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Jean,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I will have to re-read the current guidelines, but as far as I'm concerned, if an aluminium head is "Indistinguishable" from the original, there should be ZERO deductions! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have one on my car and it is "Indistinguishable" from the original. Just like I have a period original 3.54 rear end and other unseen period options for my stock, non LeMans BN1 that will out run any "stock 100M". The whole point of AH Concours was to encourage our cars to be driven, and to NOT be "Trailer Queens" as are a lot of marque Concours. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Another member of the Concours Committee has the exact same engine mods that I do, so I'm in good company. Neither of our cars can be distinguished as not being 100% stock from the factory in 1955. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Curt</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 7:39 PM Randall Hicks <<a href="mailto:healey100m@me.com" class="">healey100m@me.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">My Jan. 19, 1956 & Feb. 3, 1956 build BN2/100M’s both have the brace.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Randy<br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Nov 17, 2021, at 10:12 PM, Curtis Arndt via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank" class="">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">DO NOT REMOVE! <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Curt</div></div><br class=""><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" target="_blank" class="">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></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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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Quite possibly the reason why this was done.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Jean</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986" target="_blank" class="">
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">I think the doors would be prone to oilcanning without the braces.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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<div class=""><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 class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Must have been only on later cars because neither of my BN1s has them.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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<div class=""><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" class="">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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<div class=""><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><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal">Jean</p><p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="512" height="384" style="width: 5.3333in; height: 4in;" id="gmail-m_8422238660269952809gmail-m_-3632966731659788472_x0000_i1026" class=""><img border="0" width="512" height="384" style="width: 5.3333in; height: 4in;" id="gmail-m_8422238660269952809gmail-m_-3632966731659788472_x0000_i1025" class=""></p><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal">Sent from
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