Reminds me of an old Teresa Brewer song,
"Oh, let me go
Let me go
Let me
go, louvre"
I don't believe I said it, either.
Roy Bowman
BJ8 28985
From:
"Editorgary at aol.com" <Editorgary at aol.com>
To: greylinn at ozemail.com.au;
healeys at autox.team.net
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 5:44 PM
Subject: Re:
[Healeys] 100M Bonnets
In a message dated 6/19/11 2:14:15 PM,
greylinn at ozemail.com.au writes:
> OK Gary - but were ONLY vehicles destined
for "M" treatment fitted with
> louvred bonnets at the factory? I would have
thought other customers could
> specify this on standard cars.
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter
>
No, it's the other way around. Only vehicles fitted with louvred
bonnets
are considered "100M" cars. What we don't know is whether ALL cars
that
received louvred bonnets got the remainder of the modifications in the
LeMans
package. What we're saying is that all we're sure, by definition, all
100Ms had
louvred bonnets, but we're not sure that all louvred bonnet cars
had 100M
performance options. To my knowledge, no one has been able to come
up with any
documentation that indicated how a dealer, and/or a buyer,
specified that
they wanted to buy a 100M.
And if you wanted just the LeMans
modifications without the louvred hood
and two-tone paint job, you could just
go to your dealer and order the
package. It arrived from DMHCo in a box, and
the dealer installed the parts on your
car. Simple as that. No records kept
that tracked how many of these kits
were shipped (Geoff Healey estimated in
one of his books that the number may
have been around 1,200 to 1,500) and
there's no way of connecting a kit to a
specific car.
That's why, though we
know that there were 640 cars shipped from the
factory with louvred bonnets,
we don't know how many cars in the world had LeMans
modifications installed.
Gary
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