Thanks Steve--I have since found out that as a result of an accident, the
shroud on this car has been replaced with an earlier one.
Nope, didn't get the VIN. There were a bunch of BJ8's there.
Cheers
tom
> [Original Message]
> From: sbyers <sbyers@ec.rr.com>
> To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Date: 5/3/05 10:23:23 AM
> Subject: Re: Question on Driving lights.
>
> Hi, Tom -
> Although it's possible that a late BJ8 got a front shroud with one light
> because it was available and fit the car better than any others, it's most
> likely that the front shroud was just replaced at some point in the car's
> life with an available single-light shroud.
>
> I know of a car within 200 of the end of production that has a
single-light
> front shroud. The car also has a lot of other non-original features.
>
> At this late date, it's pretty hard in most cases to say that this or that
> feature on a particular car is or is not original from the factory;
however,
> I have ample data in the BJ8 registry to indicate that "early" and "late"
> design details were not rigidly observed during manufacture of the cars,
> regardless of what the parts books indicate.
>
> Did you happen to collect the VIN of the car you saw?
>
> Steve Byers
> HBJ8L/36666
> BJ8 Registry
> Havelock, NC
>
> >On Mon, 02 May 2005 18:56:08 -0400 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.
> >
> >Regards
> >tom
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