Would a letter to the people who keep all the records of
BMC/BMH/BL/Austin-Rover cars help? The BHMIT Museum at GAYDON in the UK
( unfortunately for money...) supply Heritage Certificates on the
original specification, and destination, of cars, including MG, ( but
not the 'Y' series, they were thrown away.....) The address is BHMIT,
Heritage Motor Centre, Banbury Road, GAYDON, Warwickshire, CV35 OBJ,
England. Phone 01926 641188. If LE numbers were allocated at Abingdon
for exports, they will have the list of Vin/Chassis numbers to Edition
number.
Neil.
Len Drake wrote:
>
> Yep, all of those 250 Canadian LE's had the number plate on the glove
> box. I'm not sure where the engraving was done though. The plaque
> looks exactly like the US model one with the exception of the
> engraved portion at the bottom (e.g. #15 0f 250). Hard to imagine
> the Canadian importer going to the trouble to remove the factory
> plaque and get it engraved before sending the car off to the selling
> dealer. My guess is that it would have been done in the factory.
>
> And now my question - I recently acquired a very rusty Canadian LE
> that one of the previous owners has removed the plaque from. How
> does a person determine what number this car should be? The serial
> number is GHN5UL492754 . Maybe those on the list with Canadian LE's
> could email me with their serial number and LE number to help me
> narrow the search down. At this stage, from previous cars owned,
> all I can tell is that it is later than #51.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Len Drake
> Kelowna, B.C.
>
> >Envelope-to: drake@direct.ca
> >Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 23:39:52 -0600
> >From: Dave Quirt <quirt@sk.sympatico.ca>
> >X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01C-SYMPA (Win95; U)
> >To: mgs@autox.team.net
> >Subject: Re: 80 MGB Limited Edition
> >Sender: owner-mgs@autox.team.net
> >Reply-To: Dave Quirt <quirt@sk.sympatico.ca>
> >
> >Paul and others:
> >
> >At least some of the Canadian LEs do appear to have NUMBERED plaques. I
> >don't know if the plaques were numbered at the factory or were modified
> >after leaving the factory by the Canadian distributor. From a number of
> >years back I remember some talk of there being a run of 250 LEs for
> >Canada. Does anyone know more about this?? (Len Drake where are
> >you??) Clausager's picture was presumably of a US LE as probably 10
> >times or more LEs went to the US than to Canada.
> >
> >Dave Quirt
> >Neuhorst, SK
> >
> >
> >>From Paul Hunt:
> >prsmith@navnet.net wrote:
> >>
> >> Does the plaque on the dash of the US 1980 MGB Limited Edition have a
> >> number on it to such as 156/5400?
> >
> >Reading from Clausager, he shows a picture of the North American
> >'limited' edition/special dash plaque which does not appear to cary a
> >number, nor does Clausager mention that it did (unlike the Jubilee model
> >which is shown and mentioned as doing so). He says that 6682 cars were
> >built, and mentions the US and Canada in the same breath without
> >distinguishing between them. The UK Limited Edition cars were not
> >fitted with plaques, numbered or otherwise.
> >
> >
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