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Fw: AH 100 Rear Bumper

To: "Healey Lista" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Subject: Fw: AH 100 Rear Bumper
From: "John Rued" <rudedoggg@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:42:35 -0500
Can anyone assist in this endeavor?  Anyone with decent condition bumpers 
who'd want to take one for the (Hundred Four) team and loan them to Jorge? 
I'm sure we could make it worth your while...

John Rued

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JORGE CERVERA" <jorgecervera218@hotmail.com>
To: <rudedoggg@earthlink.net>; <richchrysler@quickclic.net>
Cc: <JORGECERVERA218@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 1:21 AM
Subject: AH 100 Rear Bumper


> HI JOHN & RICH,
>
> IN THE MID '70'S AND UP TO 1992, I USED TO MAKE AND I STILL HAVE THE 
> TOOLING TO FORM THE CONTOUR OF THE 100-4 FRONT & REAR BUMPERS, BUT 
> UNFORTUNATEDLY, I CANT FIND THE JIG OR THE USED  ORIGINAL BUMPERS TO GIVE 
> THEM HE CORRECT CURVATURE WIDTH AND LENGHT AND I SOLD MY 100-4 IN 1995...
>
> IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO WILL LEND ME A PAIR OF ORIGINAL F&R BUMPERS AND 
> OVERRIDERS WE CAN MAKE THEM AGAIN...
>
> LET ME KNOW,
> YOUR FRIEND,
> JORGE CERVERA
>
>>Jorge,
>>Word is out on the Healey internet list that you have the resources 
>>required to make an accurate heavy guage 100 rear bumper.
>>Should you ever decide to tool up, count me in.  I want one.
>>John Rued
>
> Hi Jorge,
> I wrote you a while ago about the need for an accurate rear bumper for the 
> Healey 100, one with the curvature that will parallel the rear of the body 
> when viewed from above.
> This is currently being discussed on the Healey Email list and I want to 
> urge you to produce one that is correct. All the current offerings are 
> shaped too straight. If an enthusiast wants to do one right we currently 
> have to buy the poor reproduction, send it to a bumper shop with a 
> template and have the chrome stripped from the bumper, the shape altered, 
> then the triple chrome plating to complete it. This total cost obviously 
> becomes almost triple the price.
> Do you currently have the dies to make these?
> I would send you an original if I had one, but unfortunately I do not have 
> one.
>
> Thoughts?
> Rich Chrysler
>
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