[Healeys] Fwd: Getting decent quality parts

[Alan Seigrist]

But guys, this was probably in the 80's and 70's when our cars weren't worth
much and BMC was bankrupt.

Even MGAs are worth 20K plus now... putting cheap parts on a car worth that
much just don't make sense.

Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'64 BJ8


On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:03 PM, <Warthodson at aol.com> wrote:

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>  From: Warthodson
> To: m.g.sharp at sympatico.ca
> Sent: 2/13/2009 8:56:01 A.M.  Central Standard Time
> Subj: Re: [Healeys] Getting decent quality  parts
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> I worked, briefly, at Victoria British, many years ago. At that time,  they
> offered the customer Lucas parts or the option of less expensive  repro
> parts.
> They also offered
> MGB fenders from the original tooling or less expensive repro  fenders.
> They
> even had a note in the catalog that indicated the less expensive  fenders
> might need more work to get them to fit. Sales of the more expensive  parts
> were
> almost non-existent. The complaints about the fenders were  so numerous &
> costly to VB that they actually stopped selling  them & only offered the
> better
> part. I don't know if that is still true  today.
> I am often amazed at how often a reply to a question on this list is not
> directed to the to the original question, but "how to do it cheaper".
> Gary Hodson
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