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1. Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: "Reid Trummel" <editor_reid@hotmail.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:49:17 +0000; My recent visit to the auctions in Arizona got me to thinking about the differences between an "amateur" and a "professional" restoration. I'm really not sure that those are meaningful distinctions.; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00895.html (9,004 bytes)
2. Re: Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: "Greg Lemon" <glemon@neb.rr.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:55:08 -0600; OK, I will bite, as I am sure you all know, "professional restoration" is generally used in the collector car trade to denote a restoration done properly and to a high standard, amateur restoration i; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00896.html (11,145 bytes)
3. Re: Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: Magnus Karlsson <magnuskarlsson@bornet.net>; Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:34:01 +0100; Spot on Reid! The term professional restoration is a marketing expression in my mind. It could actually just as well mean that the restoration is under the standards of an amateur restoration. The on; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00897.html (9,823 bytes)
4. Re: Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: "Richard Bittmann" <edmyed@harbornet.com>; Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:52:30 -0800; The cars you saw sold last week all lacked the "concours gold" attention to detail you refer to. The photos from the online catalog revealed many deviations from this "standard" to the casual observ; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00898.html (10,757 bytes)
5. Re: Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: "Dallas Congleton" <dcong996@earthlink.net>; Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:06:10 -0500; In my observations, the difference between amateur and "professional" restorations many times is the difference in body panel fit, and in the skill level of painting and upholstery, assuming the prof; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00900.html (10,748 bytes)
6. RE: Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: "tom felts" <tomfelts@earthlink.net>; Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:47:27 -0500; A "Professional" is someone who gets paid for doing something. An "amateur" is one who does it because he loves to do it and doesn't get paid. Is one better than the other? It would have to be based; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00901.html (10,943 bytes)
7. Re: Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: "John Rued" <rudedoggg@earthlink.net>; Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:45:03 -0600; The people who buy these (auctioned) cars are NOT Healey enthusiasts in the way you and I are. They do NOT care that a car does not meet concourse standards. Likewise, these people have money to burn; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00903.html (9,259 bytes)
8. Re: Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: "Rich C" <richchrysler@quickclic.net>; Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:09:28 -0500; Wow, Somebody want to pay my way, I'll gladly be there to judge these cars. A judge Rich Chrysler; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00904.html (9,181 bytes)
9. Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: "Mark Endicott" <mark@nashvilletn.org>; Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:16:13 -0600; I is strictly the direction of the flow of money. Amateur = $ Out > Pro = $ IN < I would rather have a car worked on by someone that loved it rather someone that only worked on it because thay got pa; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00906.html (8,878 bytes)
10. Re: Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: "Bluechipracing" <bluechipracing@snet.net>; Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:00:54 -0500; Perhaps the best results are obtained by an hardcase enthusiast who does most of the work himself, having a proper workshop, tools, time, skill and money; concours guidelines in hand, and farms out t; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00908.html (11,503 bytes)
11. RE: Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: "David Porter" <frogeye@swcp.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:19:36 -0700; Ah, excuse me Mark, but some of us "professionals" (I gotta live too) love to work on them.. Dave -- I would rather have a car worked on by someone that loved it rather someone that only worked on it; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00909.html (9,093 bytes)
12. Re: Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: Rjdisi@aol.com; Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:38:12 EST; I agree with your opinion but would add; Some 'amateur' restorations far exceed professional's depending on the skill and time spent by the so called amateur. Amateur's (can) spend much more time and; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00911.html (9,987 bytes)
13. Re: Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: Brian Mix <brianmix@cox.net>; Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:35:18 -0800; TIME X SKILL = Quality of the restoration You do the math. :-) Pro or not does not matter. However, if I was selling a car at auction, I would get some Pro to do something on the car so I could use t; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00918.html (10,511 bytes)
14. RE: Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: "Malaney, David W" <DavidWMalaney@eaton.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:39:09 -0500; Whether the restoration is done by a 'pro' or an 'amateur', it needs to be 'sympathetic'. I kept hearing one of the TV guys on the auction using that term. Like: 'this car has had a very sympathetic; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00919.html (9,398 bytes)
15. Re: Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: "davidwjones" <davidwjones@cox.net>; Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:17:31 -0500; Perhaps it is even more likely that an amateur restorer, working on his own car would take the time to refurbish original parts too time consuming for a professional restorer, and collect NOS replac; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00921.html (11,175 bytes)
16. Re: Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: "davidwjones" <davidwjones@cox.net>; Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:07:05 -0500; Exactly right, Jim. In doing mine, I knew that I could not for instance line bore the engine, and skillfully rebuild the block, crank, etc. nor as skillfully fit the body, or spray the car as a profe; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00924.html (10,240 bytes)
17. Re: Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: rfeibusch1@earthlink.net (Richard Feibusch); Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:18:40 -0800; As an appraiser, I do not look at who did the job - just the results. Some of the best cars that I have seen, from Packard 12s to Bugeye Sprites, came out of a competant hobbiest's garage. Oftentime; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00930.html (9,846 bytes)
18. Re: Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: "Dallas Congleton" <dcong996@earthlink.net>; Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:28:18 -0500; "as dependable and well-built as a Japanese-made Toyota" Toyota has 6 and is planning a 7th factory in North America so the Toyotas we see are "as dependable and well- built as an American or Canadia; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00939.html (10,515 bytes)
19. RE: Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: "Ed Townley" <healeymonster@fastwave.biz>; Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:04:47 -0700; Umm, I second that E-motion, as a young, Black singer once said. Although I hear he is still around, he has been Restored by professionals to the point that he is almost unrecognizable as one of the; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00949.html (9,290 bytes)
20. Re: Amateur vs. Professional Restoration (score: 1): Author: "John Rued" <rudedoggg@earthlink.net>; Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:16:39 -0600; Smokey Robinson?; /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00965.html (7,892 bytes)

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