[Healeys] '63 BJ8?

[Richard Kahn]

I'm trying to get the California black plates as a '63 cause the plate says
63. I cannot use it if it is a 64. I argued that YOM plates stand for year of
manufacture not model year. They are considering it.  American cars use to
come out in September dated for the following year. We use to go to the
Autorama every August to see what GM was coming out with for the following
year.
Rich Kahn

> From: sbyers at ec.rr.com
> To: healeys at autox.team.net
> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:28:53 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] '63 BJ8?
>
> 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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