No - pull-handles have no thumb button at all. Allen
Carl Elliott wrote:
Pull handle ? Raised handle with thumb button on end. Carl E.
Dave Quirt wrote:
> Well, I'm Canadian not American, but anyway: My Iris Blue '65
> GHN3L62914 is a PUSHBUTTON-handle car. I used to have GHN3L56037 which
> was/is an Iris Blue PULL-handle '65. The Canadian Bs, at least,
> followed the cut-off at 57985/57986. Personally, I would have to SEE to
> believe any original pull-handle B after 57985.
>
> Dave Q.
>
> >Allen Bachelder wrote:
> My '65 B project car - GHN3L57254 - has pull handles. Clausager's book
> indicates that pull-handle Bs go up about through 57985 if I remember
> correctly. The approximate changeover seems to be about March of 1965.
> At one time mine was the latest surviving pull-handle B known to the
> NAMGBR - but now there is a later one in the pull-handle registry. I
> wrote to MGCC about this and got a response from a Swedish owner of a
> pullhandle 58254 (yes, exactly 1000 cars later than mine). Don Bishop
> answered my letter in "Safety Fast" indicating that, Clausager to the
> contrary, pull handle cars went up through 65865. Perhaps since
> pull-handles fell to US safety regulations, cars destined for other
> markets continued to have pull-handles for awhile??? Go figure... Any
> US owners out there with pull-handle cars later than 57985?
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