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Re: what year and/or part number

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Subject: Re: what year and/or part number
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 18:41:13 -0700
>From Clausager, engine numbers beginning 18V581 are either home market or
non-North America export, w/o overdrive, 1971-73. But looking at the list in
the book, I would expect to see an F, Y or Z before the H.

North American MGBs started at 18V584, which is apparently what Moss was
going by.

on 5/3/01 6:57 PM, Andrew B. Lundgren at lundgren@byu.net wrote:

> From the Moss catalog, it isn't out of an MG.  The 18V584 is the first
> one shown in the their catalog... I would think that the early 18V
> parts would be correct for this as well.  I have a '68 Canada engine
> that isn't listed in the Moss or VB numbers, so yours might just have
> been destined to a non-US market.
> 
> On Thu, 03 May 2001 15:48:09 +0200, DenverD wrote:
> 
>> i have a 65B roadster with engine number 18V581-H193, the part
>> number on the head is 565394..
> --
> Andrew Lundgren
> lundgren@byu.net
> http://www.itwest.net/~lundgren
> 


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.

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