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Auction of a number of Healey projects (think I saw some hardtops in there, too) coming up in Buffalo in August: https://www.schultzauctioneers.net/Auction025.htm Tip o' the driving cap to the Healey mail list.
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Hoarded Healey Horde
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CLEAH
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This is super interesting. Amazing collection. I'm originally from Buffalo, but I don't know who this fellow is. Most interesting to me is that there is a BJ8 parts car with a VIN that is eleven numbers from mine. My car is also from Buffalo. Looks like I need to plan to be in Buffalo on August 22! Thanks for posting this Rick.
Keoke
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there is a BJ8 parts car with a VIN that is eleven numbers from mine. My car is also from Buffalo.
WELL it seem like them Buffalo folks got MK111 BJ8's before any body else since theirs are 1957 's---:glee:
Man! there are some Healeys in there. We all should have been Forsenick examiners.
WELL it seem like them Buffalo folks got MK111 BJ8's before any body else since theirs are 1957 's---:glee:
Man! there are some Healeys in there. We all should have been Forsenick examiners.
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HEALEYJAG
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WHich brings up the topic of hoarding as a sickness......have a 90 yr old hoarder by me..has everthing...cars, boats, airplanes, army Tanks..says he wants to sell but can't..he understands it is a sickness.....told him it would be an honor for me to be the next proprietor of an old e-type that has been sitting for 30 yrs....he looked me straight in the eye and said 'KEEP YOU EYES ON THE OBITUARIES". And this was AFTER he said he needs to sell...
nONE OF HIS CARS ETC ARE IN RUNNING CONDITION... My wife and I left after 4 hour tour....we were sad that he knew he was trapped but could do nothing about it...
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Perhaps it was a bit unfair to refer to this as "hoarded" which does have some negative connotations. The owner of this collection appears to have been a respected dentist and forensic examiner with a variety of interests including SCCA racing. He obviously had completed cars in his collection as well as cars being worked on and others that may have spoken to an urge to tinker. Unlike most of us, he had the wherewithal to indulge his passions and he must have subscribed to the "He who dies with the most toys, wins." philosophy. Seems like a life well-lived to me.
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I think that collections like this are clearly hoarding. Not that there is anything wrong with that unless the stuff is not cared for and this stuff was clearly stored properly. It becomes hoarding when you have more than you can possibly restore/maintain/drive. Jay leno would be a hoarder save for the fact that he can and does actually work on, restore and drive what he collects (even if he as some folks who do a lot o that for him; ain't nothing wrong with money). I got the feeling that this collection was a little more than what he could ever restore.
Brinkerhoff
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A lot of interesting cars including the XKs , even an MG TC ( hidden in plain site like one of those "Highlight" puzzles). What a great collection !
Steve P.
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Here's a reality check. If it wasn't for people having the forsight to save old, often unwanted things,
we'd all be driving smart-econonboxes now instead of old LBC's. This guy most likely saved a bunch
of intersting and unique items from going to scrap. Frankly I find your posting to be a bit disrespectful.
He took the time to show you his private collection, which he is probably very proud of, and accumulated
over a long period of time just to be insulted. Its sad that some folks put labels on others without
having any appreciation for what was accomplished. And what was saved for future generations.
By many people's standard I'm also a horder. And I get criticized for it constantly. But
I am having an absolute blast in retirement restoring
the things I collected over the years. And not just cars. To each his own...
Steve
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A 1962 Austin-Healey is back in the Maraschiello family fold.
The sports car was owned by the Maraschiellos from 1972 to 1989, and then sold to the late Dr. A. Alexander Drapanas, a local dentist who was also a vintage car collector.
On Saturday, Frank Maraschiello, a Buffalo public school teacher, fulfilled a dream to reacquire the car by buying it at an auction of Drapanas’ cars in Allentown. It was his father’s pride and joy, but he only drove it out of the garage once.
“I paid more than I thought I would have, to, but it was well worth it,” said Maraschiello, after outbidding a collector from England. He declined to reveal the amount.
Maraschiello said he can’t wait to get his father’s sports car on the road, after restoring it from top to bottom.
“If you’re not a car person, you don’t understand, but that was the most fun I had with my dad, working on cars together and growing up with him,” Maraschiello said.
He also plans to wear a driving cap his father wore while sitting behind the wheel of the Austin-Healey, smoking a cigar.
“There is a certain bond with some cars, and that car has a great karma, and I know it’s just going to be a great car,” Maraschiello said.
He added: “My father will get his first real ride with me driving it.”
The most expensive sale at the Drapanas auction, as expected, was for a 1947 Delahaye.
It sold for $285,000, one of 53 automobiles and 241 total lots auctioned Saturday.
https://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/son-retrieves-fathers-dream-car-at-drapanas-auction-20150822
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I have crap in my garage that I know I will never use and yet I cannot seem to part with some of it. The other day in a rare fit of rash impulsiveness I threw away three sets of five-point racing harnesses that were out of date by three-five years. As I tossed them in the dumpster I wrestled with the thought that someday I might have a need for them to lift a fallen tree or something--you just never know what might happen!
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Wow, what a coincidence, I found some harnesses in a dumpster while going through your town! I now have some wires to go with my 35 year old bad voltage
regulators! LOL (I'm not kidding about the regulators...i still have the one that went bad that came with my Healey 35 years ago and the fuel pump that quit working 40 miles east of Oklahoma city).