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Subject: [Healeys] erstwhile Healey Museum in Virginia
From: pajtamuvek at gmail.com (Austin Healey)
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:56:21 +0200
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Sad story.

2011/8/14 <Editorgary at aol.com>

> In a message dated 8/14/11 11:05:49 AM, healeys-request at autox.team.net
> writes:
>
>
> > At the end there is some description of the fundation. The objective
> > being:
> > "To historically preserve the cars and memories of Donald M. Healey and
> > his
> > family, and all thoose who helped design,develop, produce, amrket and
> race
> > the cars that bear the Healey name."
> > "In addition to specific milestone cars, the Bill Wood Collection of
> > Healey
> > production documentation, obtained from Geoff Healey, will be a major
> part
> > of the museum's Resource Center."
> >
>
> If I'm not mistaken, all of the cars were individually sold off as part of
> a divorce settlement, and the collected research materials and documents
> were sold to someone in Switzerland who was promising to make them
> available
> again as part of his campaign to launch a "new Healey" -- To my knowledge,
> neither has happened, and I think they're lost again. Bill Emerson might
> know,
> since he's still around and was curator of the intended museum in Virginia.
>
> G.
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