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I just went to a shop closing this weekend. Did not expect to find any Healey parts as he worked mostly on MGB, but found a set of HD6 carbs. Good deal, just needs slanted float bowls that I have somewhere. Fun to look at someones shop and see what they saved through the years.
 
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One would need to be young and brave to take that deal on and make money imho.
At asking price one would hope at retail, value would be approx $750,000, that a lot of wheeling dealing, phone calls, listing and posting, cost of storage, hard work.
No doubt there is some gold in there such as shrouds, panels etc but a lot of dross that is readily available on eBay for reasonable prices that you would have to compete with to turn a dollar.
But in twenty years time will probably be looking back thinking, what a deal!
 

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Lawton, IA, is where the Healey Werks is. Half a day's drive from me. The first time I visited, probably around 2000 or so, they were a small shop doing mostly Healey restorations. The owner inherited the Healey parts and business from his dad. I came up to buy a few old Healey bits, and Craig, the owner, was accommodating, but I believe he was more interested in attending to his restorations. The parts stash is off site from the resto shop. It is not just crap, there are a lot of useful bits, I got so NLS parts for my 100 including a good used original shift knob.

Fast forward about ten years and the shop has expanded, a few Healey's, but lots of other vintage cars, many higher end, under restoration. I would guess he is just selling of a less profitable side of a large business venture, but that is just a guess.
 

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Kind of like buying yourself a really, really, big Lego set for Christmas? Doug
 
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