[Healeys] Number next to mine (BN2)

[mike brooks]

Hi Randy,
 
Wow - yours and mine are aligned - 5690 11928. So it looks like my
body, batch no and VIN all tie up. Shame I have the wrong engine - it's from a
BN1. I suspect an early owner wrecked the engine and simply fitted one out of
a scrapper.
 
Regarding BN2L 230436, it's certainly strange that it seems to
have a later batch number. I notice that its VIN and engine number do tie up.
 
By the way, I brought my car back to UK from the US while I was living and
working there. Also, the one just advertised is in the US - Kent Collection
seems to target a world-wide market and expresses all its prices in your local
currency.
 
Thanks for responding.
 
 
 

Reply
to: mike.brooks at alumni.warwick.ac.uk 

From: Randy Hicks
<Healey100M at gmail.com>
To: mike brooks <hypercubic at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: Healey
List <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 15:13
Subject:
Re: [Healeys] Number next to mine (BN2)

Hi Mike, interestingly I have BN2L
230368 (b. 1/19/56) & BN2L 230707 (b. 2/3/56) and both cars have a batch
number of 5690. What is yours? Body numbers are 11937 & 12206.

The batch &
body numbers seem way out of sequence on this car. I do realize that they did
jump around some. I do believe that the Vin plate on this car is also a
replacement. Seems very odd to me.

Also interestingly, this is the 2nd BN2
offered by a UK seller in the last month that the vin number has never shown
up before.

Maybe Rich C. has some insight.

Randy

Randy Hicks
www.austinhealey100m.com
'56 100 M  White/Black
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On Aug 23, 2011, at 9:00 AM, mike
brooks wrote:

> The car for sale on this link
www.kentcarcollection.com/info.php?id=764 is
> BN2L 230436 and mine is 437. I
don't think 436 is on any of the 100 lists.
> Rgds
> 
> Mike Brooks
> '56 BN2
> Scotland
> Reply
> to: mike.brooks at alumni.warwick.ac.uk 
>
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