I just found out that the car had been involved in an accident and the
shroud replaced with one from an earlier car.
Regards
tom
> [Original Message]
> From: Blue One Hundred <healey.nut@gmail.com>
> To: tom felts <tomfelts@earthlink.net>
> Cc: <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Date: 5/2/05 7:15:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Question on Driving lights.
>
> Tom -
>
> The switchover to dual lights on later BJ8s was haphazard and they
> built BJ8s based on the bodies as they arrived from Jensen. That
> means if Jensen still had a couple of older style bodies around, it
> could have gone over to the factory quite late for assembly. It's
> quite possible this is original.
>
> The other possibility is this car is carrying the wrong VIN or was in
> an accident before and was rebodied by a PO. I've seen both of these
> "revisions" on several healeys, sometimes on the very same car! My
> (least) favorite is my friend's '61 3000 Mk I with the BN7 VIN and BN4
> body! If I didn't know the cars so well, I wouldn't be able to
> tell!!!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> '53 BN1 '64 BJ8
>
> On 5/3/05, tom felts <tomfelts@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > I was at a Brit Car show yesterday and there was a 67 BJ8 there that
only
> > had one front parking light--no dual signal/parking light arrangement.
> > Mine is a 65 and it has the dual arrangement. Were there 67's with only
> > the one light? He had his Heritage cert on the car showing a build
date in
> > 66.
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