<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><title></title></head><body><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none">My personal view is, cars of the 50/60s are becomming more and more collectors cars and no more drivers cars. Pricewise its getting important to have the car in unmodified order, original spec, original colour, etc. In todays traffic its not nice to drive an Austin-Healey on motorways or long distances with heavy traffic inbetween. The collectors, I do not say drivers anymore, are in pensioners age. Most younger people have no emotional relation to cars. A car is just a way of commuting, but better to use public transport. I see it with my daughter. She has no relation whatsoever with cars. She drives when she must, but uses alternartives when they are given.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none">I see it with me. When I go to an Austin-Healey event or weekend, I load the Healey on the trailer and bring it to the event. Its fun to drive it there, but I really don`t like at all to drive my Austin-Healeys over long distances. So I can keep it/them in good original shape. here its really a nightmare to go with a classic car on roads through central Europe from one congestion to the next.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none">For holidays meanwhile we have a Mazda MX-5, which gives same or even more fun to drive on todays traffic. And it hase all the safety gadgets like airbags, ertc. and the engine is a dream. It revs up from 2000 to 7000 rpm, just pulling.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none">So my personal view is, original classic cars may keep their value (not sure if I am right), but modified ones will loose a lot. They lost their classic appearance and even cannot cope with today`s traffic. The original parts are gone, and replaced by Chinese tableware. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none">I think most important is to keep the original look with all the chromeware, right colours for paint and trim and keep the car as they were sold in the 50/60s. Time will tell, if I am right. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Betreff: Re: [Healeys] 100M on BAT</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">Datum: 2023-09-04T05:51:34+0200</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">Von: "Perry Small via Healeys" <healeys@autox.team.net></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">An: "HealeyRick" <healeyrik@gmail.com></p>
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<div>As someone wrote in a song several decades ago there is a time. </div>
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<div>A time to buy and a time sell. A time gather parts and a time to give them away. I time to gift a grandson, with your 53 Chevy truck. </div>
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<div>A time to part with a BN2, that you have cherished for 58 years , a time to wonder what to do, with the yellow modified, </div>
<div>Time , time, time……</div>
<div>Perry- who is getting old</div>
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<blockquote>On Sep 3, 2023, at 6:08 PM, HealeyRick <healeyrik@gmail.com> wrote:<br /><br /></blockquote>
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<div dir="ltr">Strange, I made a comment on BaT earlier today stating that it was Bill's car, Registrar of the Worldwide 100M LeMans Registry with nothing further and it was removed from the comments. There's also no other reference in the description of the car referencing it as Bill's.although there are some pictures of him.
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<div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 9:27 AM Bob Haskell via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 1ex;">Looks like Bill Meade's 100M is on BAT now.<br /><br /><a href="https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1956-austin-healey-100m-bn2-roadster-25/" rel="noreferrer">https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1956-austin-healey-100m-bn2-roadster-25/</a><br /><br />-- <br />Bob Haskell<br />Austin-Healey 3000 roadster registrar<br /><br />_______________________________________________<br />Support Team.Net <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" rel="noreferrer">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br />Suggested annual donation $12.75<br /><br />Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys" rel="noreferrer">http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys</a> <a href="http://autox.team.net/archive/healeys" rel="noreferrer">http://autox.team.net/archive/healeys</a><br /><br /><a href="mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net">Healeys@autox.team.net</a><br /><a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys" rel="noreferrer">http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys</a><br /><br />Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/healeyrik@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/healeyrik@gmail.com</a><br /><br /></blockquote>
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