[Healeys] Happy Birthday

Mr. Bill bn1 at pacbell.net
Thu Oct 30 11:29:52 MST 2008


I celebrated yours, will you celebrate with me?

Fellow AHA of SC member Steven's BN1 is the older sibling of mine.  My 
BN1 was built exactly one week after his on 5 November 1953.

Bill Barnett
BN1 #663

ATIGHTPROD at aol.com wrote:
> Just wanted to give a shout out to my car: C.A.B.  Serial number B.M.1. 
> 146497, Body Number 598, as it turns 55 years old today  having a date of build of 
> 29 October 1953. We will be going out to dinner  tonight, probably a drive 
> through, and maybe a drink afterward. And yes,  according to the Body Production 
> Card, Form 141 from the factory, my car is a  B.M.1. not a BN1, must have been 
> a typo I guess as the B.M.1. was  typed in and then underlined and the 
> numbers 146497 were hand written in.
>     I also have a question for those in the know,  on the upper right hand 
> side of the card is a box labeled H.P., which I thought  meant Horse Power but 
> maybe not as the numbers typed in there are  16. What else could it mean and 
> what would the 16 stand for?
>     T.I.A. for any help with that and we'll be out  having a fun drive this 
> evening on this 55th build date anniversary.
>  
> Steven Kingsbury
> BN1 #598


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