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Michael Oritt

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I am looking for the artistic image that someone produced several years ago showing simply the profile line of a Healey. I believe it was a red or white line against a black background or the like, simply a swooping profile of a Healey body's profile from nose to tail. Either an image or a link to where one is posted will be appreciated.
 
I have one. I believe it's called 'The Essence.' No luck on a search, and I don't remember who produced it (but he was in the US).
 
Bob_Spidell said:
I have one. I believe it's called 'The Essence.' No luck on a search, and I don't remember who produced it (but he was in the US).
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John something, he was restoring either a BN4 or BT7. He did a really good pictorial about recovering the seats, and modifying the foam rubber bases__with a holesaw__so that you sat in them, not on top of them...
 
Randy Forbes said:
John Loftus.
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Not exactly. I believe you're referring to the photo contest winner from one year when I was president of that club and John was the editor. John picked the winning photo from those submitted and, since we had a surplus of funds, I got posters printed with that image and we sent one to every member. The club name was printed across the bottom along with the toll-free phone number and website URL so that it would also be a promotional item, but you could trim that data off leaving just the image. I'm looking at a framed one right now on the wall in front of me.

The photographer's name is Ian Nelson, but I recall that he later dropped out.

The poster is too big for my home scanner and since it dates from the year 2001 I doubt that John would still have it, but you could try him: loftusdesign@cox.net

I haven't had contact with John for several years so I don't know if that email address is still good, but if you do get in touch with him I'd appreciate your saying "Hi" for me. John and I worked together on club stuff - he as editor and me as president - for several enjoyable and successful years of club growth. I still have the black Harley Davidson beret he gave me and I still wear in when driving my 100. It stays on better than a ball cap.
 
Bob--

Any chance on your taking a snapshot of it and sending it to me?
My email is: michael.oritt@gmail.com
I simply want to share the image with an artist friend of mine who is interested in our cars--no publication will be involved and no Healeys will be injured in the process of my sharing it.
 
Bob--

The original image was, as I remember, simply the top line of the fender/door/fender with no windshield stantion, wheel openings, etc. and though it supposedly came from a photo seemed a bit more stylized. Nevertheless thank you for sending that and it is interesting though not as dramatic, and may convey to my friend the design element I want to share with her.
 
Michael Oritt said:
Bob--

Any chance on your taking a snapshot of it and sending it to me?
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Like Reid's, my poster is framed and on the wall at home, but I'm on a Healey road trip--1,500 miles or so so far--and won't be home for at least 10 days. I asked my girlfriend to take a shot and send to your email.
 
Michael, I think this is what you are looking for. I received it, as Reid said, as a poster from the club. I still have the poster rolled up in a tube somewhere. I think is was a white line on a black background but since my car was Ice Blue, I had a friend add color and frame it. I still think this simple drawing really does express the "Essence" of the beautiful design of the Healey.

It hangs in a place of honor, right next to an original Reid Trummel taken at the Monterey, CA meet in the mid 1980's. When I opened the club magazine after the meet and saw a photo of my car, I was over the moon. Copies of both are below.

Sorry for the reflections.
 

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Drone Dog said:
reid
can you take a picture with your phone?
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To my everlasting shame for someone who occasionally confesses to being a photographer, herewith a dim, poorly exposed, unsquare so-called image complete with camera movement and unwanted reflections (every trick in the book!):

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At least I believe that this is the image that started the discussion.
 
All--

Thank you to the several of you who sent me the image I was looking for.

This past weekend I was in the studio of a woman who does artistic photography including portraits (My wife wants one of us though why she wants my face in it I just don't understand) and I happened to notice a framed picture under her desk. It was a photo she had taken of the dashboard of a 100 and when I asked her about it she told me that she saw teh car at a show and was taken with the swoop of the dashboard (the dash of a 100 is shaped, more or less in negative, like the bulge of the Healey's rear fender).
I told her that, being an artist she would appreciate an image someone generated a few years back (the one which is the subject of this string) and that I would send it to her.

End of story....
 
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