Kees,
Your statement, "All this concourse stuff is bullshit," really makes me angry.
I have been a member of this list for almost twenty years and I have seen you
write some really inaccurate things about Healeys but this takes the cake.
Indeed, even the late Richard Chrysler once told you on this list to keep your
uninformed opinions on Austin-Healeys to yourself.
The Concours Guidelines (and *please* spell concours properly) is one of the
few secondary sources of information that can help in the preservation and
restoration of an Austin-Healey. I would say that in many ways it is THE BEST
secondary source because it is updated annually as new information is gathered.
No publication is without errors, so even great books by such authors as
Clausager or Moment & Anderson do contain factual inaccuracies that may mislead
a restoration. (To be fair to Moment & Anderson, they keep a list of errata for
their book, available for the asking)
If you think Concours is about trailer queens and awards, then you just have no
clue why the organization exists. To quote the very first sentence of the
Austin-Healey Concours Registry Organization, Policies and Inspection
Guidelines,
"The Austin-Healey Concours Registry was created by members from a number of
Austin-Healey clubs in North America to assist owners in restoring their cars
to original standards and to encourage the restoration and maintenance of
original cars."
This sums up the entire mission of the Registry. Please note that the word
"bullshit" does not appear there nor anywhere else in the publication.
So, following in the footsteps of Richard Chrysler: Kees, please keep your
baseless, uninformed opinions on Austin-Healeys to yourself.
John P. New
London, Ontario, Canada
On Thursday, December 12, 2019 2:35:33 AM EST Kees Oudesluijs wrote:
> That looks very neat and tidy. Time to get it dirty. However fit some
> air filters in a cold box first. Avoid the foam affairs because of
> severe fire risk. These cars are for driving. All this concourse stuff
> is bullshit. Use them, make them safe to drive in modern traffic and
> enjoy them. We have friends that use their A-H cars as a daily driver
> and rebuild the car every so often if and when extensive repairs are
> needed.
>
> To many concourse trailer queens about that may not even be fit for driving.
>
> Kees Oudesluijs
>
>
>
> Op 12-12-2019 om 04:05 schreef richard mayor:
> > The 1960 BT7 that I have been working on is not concours. I can't go
> > into details right now but here's a photo of the engine compartment.
> >
> > DSCN4470 (1).jpg
> >
> >
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