{"id":281,"date":"2020-04-24T23:47:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T06:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/?p=281"},"modified":"2020-05-02T10:47:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T17:47:25","slug":"if-these-photos-excite-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/2020\/04\/24\/if-these-photos-excite-you\/","title":{"rendered":"IF THESE PHOTOS EXCITE YOU …"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent much of the last couple of days working on the recently acquired project car mentioned in several previous posts, and while we – that’s Kent Lambert and me – were at it I took the opportunity to get photos of those numbers inscribed on the carb bodies of the “Le Mans Kit” carbs that show them to be the real deal.\u00a0 Note the “6047” and “6053” in these photos, and if your heart beats a little faster as you do, then you get it.<\/h2>\n

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However, one thing I don’t get it this:\u00a0 The Healey cognoscenti look for the style in which those digits are rendered.\u00a0 In other words, they have to be in just the right hand, the right penmanship.\u00a0 OK, but how can it be that over the course of the years when these were made, only one person inscribed them all?\u00a0 He never took a day off?\u00a0 Never got sick?\u00a0 Never got a promotion or even a new assignment?<\/h2>\n

“OK Tommy, your job today here at ACME Carburetter Inscribing Ltd., just as it has been for the last 2,347 days, is to inscribe the SU H6 carbs with the numbers … you know the ones!\u00a0 Yes, 6047 and 6053!\u00a0 And watch that penmanship.\u00a0 Consistency is our motto.\u00a0 Don’t let us down!”<\/h2>\n

Kinda weird, don’t you think?\u00a0 The exact same penmanship, inscribed by the same guy, over the course of years<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0But here’s the real kicker: No one knows what those inscribed numbers mean.\u00a0 Oh, they’re real, real<\/em> important to authenticate the carbs as correct components of the Le Mans Kit, but without known meaning.<\/h2>\n

It’s like a cult or something.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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