[Healeys] '63 BJ8?

[BJ8 Healeys]

Production of the Mark III (BJ8) began in October 1963.  According to most
of the world, except for the USA, the "year" of a car is the calendar year
in which it was built.  In the USA, the "new model year" begins in
September/October so that most cars (probably all) built in '63 and sold in
the USA would have been initially registered as '64s.

According to Clausager, there were 0 Home market cars, 0 right-hand drive
export cars, 1 left-hand drive export car, and 343 left-hand drive North
American export BJ8s built in calendar year 1963.  If any of those are
currently registered in non-USA countries, they are probably registered as
'63s.  The BJ8 registry has plenty of examples of cars that were "1965s" in
the USA becoming "1964s" when they went back to Europe.

The BJ8 registry has 10 cars claiming to be 1963s.  All except one of them
are in Germany or The Netherlands.  The exception is in Arizona.

Interestingly, the BJ8 with the lowest chassis number (25315) was not built
until 20 - 23 January 1964.

Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC  USA

-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of gene stigen
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 9:26 AM
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] '63 BJ8?

sorry
there were no BJ8s in '63,didn't happen to best of my knowledge,some late
'64s. cheers Geno
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