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Re: When do you throw in the towel?

To: "shifty" <shifty@best.com>, "roadsters" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: When do you throw in the towel?
From: Marc Tyler <mtyler@hctc.net>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 20:09:37 -0500
shifty wrote

>Andrew,
>
>The short answer is... when you can poke your fingers through major
>structural pieces.
>
>I dragged my '67.5 2000 down from Canada - it turned out to be much worse
>than I could have imagined. The cowl area was a complete disaster.
>
>I did manage to find a '67.5 1600 about two weeks later. The body on this
>car is better, but still needs floorboards and sills.
>
>The standards of "salvageable" differ depending on location - what is just
>"a bit of welding" in the UK is a total write-off in Southern California.
>
>Leigh Brooks
>BADROC
>
This site will wither inspire you or scare the bejeezus out of you or 
both. It's page one of16 pages of one Australian's resto of a Healy 100.  
There's not much there, sheetmetal-wise.  Look at all 16 pages if you 
have time.

http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/page1.html

-Marc Tyler

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