Rich and Peter,
We have documented not only my car but also essentially a two owner BN1 here
in California with a well known history built just weeks prior to my car
(19K original miles.) It has the same batch number as mine and is about 100
body numbers earlier than my car. It has the brass reflector pods and the
Austin of England boot badge. This second owner has known both the car and
its original owner from new.
Also both cars had orange not red reflector reflexes, which we have
documented on other cars of that period.
Also I'll check with another well known one owner BN1 here in CA to see if
it had the reflector pods.
Cheers,
Curt
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Rich C <richchrysler@quickclic.net> wrote:
> Hello Peter,
>
> I would tend to agree with your research about the features on this car.
> However, there have been widely varying discrepancies regarding the
> introduction of these rear reflectors and the placing of the "Austin of
> England" badges. This car may well be one that had been delayed for some
> reason during it's build time, and was finally off the end of the line
> (applying a much later unified chassis and engine base 6 digit number of
> 221569) than these body features would otherwise have had.
> As we have read, the introduction of the rear reflector pods was to stay
> within the U.K. laws that dictated rear reflectors were required from
> October of '54 on all new vehicles.
> As for the Austin of England boot lid badge, I have records of the odd one
> applied well into early December of '54, though the Austin Healey badge was
> installed in normal production from early September of '54.
> Can you please send me all the other information and owners information so
> we can enter it into the Hundred Registry?
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> Rich Chrysler
> Hundred Registrar
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