<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Very good news!<div>P<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 22, 2022, at 1:39 AM, i erbs <eyera3000@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Fantastic <br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Ira Erbs<br>1959 AH 100-6<br>1967 MGB<br>Milwaukie, OR</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 9:40 PM Mark Donaldson via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-NZ" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-3410172940959218744WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> . . . or just Kilmartin’s as we have known them for some 40 years, then to close their order book on 31<sup>st</sup> May<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">I visited a local member a couple of weeks ago to see how he was progressing with stripping the chassis of a 1954 BN1 he had recently bought in pieces.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">It was dismantled by the owner with the intent of restoring it.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">This was about 35 years ago. Can you see where this project was going? </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">😊</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">My friend told me the chassis wasn’t too good and, try as he might, using all of his engineering skills, he couldn’t get it straight.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">That, and a bit too much ‘tin worm’, as DMH used to call it.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">So he picked up the phoned, spoke to Greg, and bought a new 100 chassis.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">I told you all that to tell you this:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">He said that <b>Greg</b> and <b>John</b> have found a new buyer for <b>KAS</b> and they will be staying on for a year to train the new staff in all aspects of the business.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">So, we can all now breathe a huge sigh of relief that I suspect may be heard around the entire Healey world.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Keep it shiny side up,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Mark<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Ardmore<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">New Zealand<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><img width="310" height="115" style="width:3.225in;height:1.2in" id="m_-3410172940959218744Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.png@01D83E13.C49A0AC0" data-unique-identifier=""></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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