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Does anyone have any information regarding the May 4, 2013 Houston Auction which included the 58 Goldie. I understand the bidding was up to 180,000, but there was no sale. Thanks for any information you can share. Jim:driving:
 
Its amazing just how wrong gold can be in certain applications - and I am a jewellery maker, so I don't usually mind it...
 
About 10 years ago I bought a 1973 Maserati Bora that belonged to a dentist in Ohio. He had the stainless steel bumpers and hub cap gold plated and then went about painting the leather dash gold. He also had it painted a gold color. Yikes, it took me a year just to get rid of the gold. He was really proud of it, so to each his own.
John
 
$1,000,000 buy it now ! What a deal !!! Only 19 days left and all it takes is a $200 deposit.
 
I saw goldie at a Healey event over 25? years ago when it was just finished by the phillips. I don't know I kinda liked it. Must see in person...Pete
 
Goldie was at Open Roads 2002 in Lake Tahoe. She was a beautifully restored chick car promotion with lots of provenance. She seems so much at odds with the macho Healey image. Healey's should leak grease and oil, not mink dander. Could be that oddness makes her special. 1,000,000 buy it now seems over the top absurd. No doubt the owner is aiming extremely high and has successfully created some publicity for the car.
 
Having a 100/6 2-seater, I've always been thrilled that the car 1) was built, and 2) that it has been rescued and restored.

I also feel that owning it has no upside; the best thing that could happen (I think, and from "our" enthusiast standpoint) would see it donated to the Healey Museum, NL. I mean, it must be a pita to keep in top form!

Somebody (cough, Reid) should write a book about it's history; as much as is known, anyway. Other than the little mentions it gets in various Healey Marque books, I haven't read much else about it. If it has been covered in more depth, does anyone have some links to it?
 
Randy Forbes said:
Having a 100/6 2-seater, I've always been thrilled that the car 1) was built, and 2) that it has been rescued and restored.

I also feel that owning it has no upside; the best thing that could happen (I think, and from "our" enthusiast standpoint) would see it donated to the Healey Museum, NL. I mean, it must be a pita to keep in top form!
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Good points, Randy. It's one of those cars that you don't it, it owns you. Nonetheless, it seems to have done its job at Earl's Court attracting plenty of attention to the marque (and how could it not with champagne squirting from the windshield washers?) It certainly is evocative of its time. and reminds me of the glamour of Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe dressed in long sequined gowns topped with a mink stole.
 
In the Collins Brothers ad for Goldie, reference is made to "chassis modifications" that resulted in "uncanny smoothness and solidity." Does anyone know what those modifications were?
 
CanberraBJ8 said:
Its amazing just how wrong gold can be in certain applications -
Wrong

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and I am a jewellery maker, so I don't usually mind it...
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Why??- Gold does not tarnish ,Gold does not carrode and Gold does not rust
,Cosequently, those plated items will require vey little maintainence.
 
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