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This forum has been a huge help to me since buying the Healey, I'd go so far as to say that without the web it would have been an entirely different and much more challenging thing to do.

Hip hip hooray for the WWW! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/england.gif
 
Thanks particularly to those relatively few of you who take the time to share your knowledge with those of us who really need the help.
 
amen Cutlass, there are about a dozen members, maybe a few more, on this forum that are really essential to the BCF being as sucessful as it is. The rest of us make it work too, but we really rely on you guys most of the time. Thanks
 
Absolutely!
Personally, I believe my restoration would have been more stressful, taken longer and I would have had a lot of things incorrect.
No matter what is asked here, someone has been there, done that, or it turns into a hot topic. There are no dumb questions, (except for one or two of mine) for at one time, someone asked it, wanted to ask it, or knows the answer to it.
Cheers to all who are a part of this forum. And a special thanks to those who we, I, always count on to be there.
 
Ditto !
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I bought my Healey in 1978, and I first used the Internet in 2000. So that's 22 years out of 29 without web-assistance. We all made do, we just didn't know otherwise.

I'll grant you, having a web presence has done wonders for the hobby; I'm sure there are fewer abandoned restoration projects nowadays. If for no other reason than the fact that we've blabbed our intentions to the world and don't want to lose face... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
It's not only good for car stuff. If you have any other interests, the web is good for many things. Although I admit, sometimes you have to sort through the garbage/mis-information to get there.
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"Where Would We Be Without The Web"? In bed Sleep like all the rest of the intelligent folk!---Keoke- /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Since we're all giving testimonials to the benefit of the web, here's mine. It is possible to restore a Healey without the web, I've done it and I know lot's of members also have done it, that's how they became "experts" and can now pass- on that experience to others. So now, it is easier in that you don't have to have a bookshelf loaded with manuals, how to article's, factory parts manuals etc. etc. so my question is "why aren't more people restoring British car's?"
 
That's a good question. My theory is that since there is a finite number of British cars, many of which have been or are being restored, there is an ever decreasing number of cars out there to restore. I was talking to a west coast Healey restoration specialist and he said, it's getting harder and harder to find cars to restore. In fact he's had to resort to buying less desirable (rusty) cars from the east coast just to keep his pipline filled.
 
Rusty cars are something UK restorers are used to! I guess thats why so many have been brought home in recent years.

There is one thing the web cant do for me, it cant find me a Napier Lion Aero engine for my boat!
 
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