[Healeys] what year

[BJ8Healeys]

Niels, cars that were dispatched to California from the factory got those
tags because California required the identification of the manufacturer and
the "year of manufacture" to be provided somewhere on the vehicle.  Since
the VIN did not have a code for such information, the tags were added.  I do
not know for sure, but I believe the tags were put on the cars after they
arrived in California and not at the factory.   The factory did not
recognize "model year" because the cars were not built that way.
Your car got the BMC-67 tag because it would have been considered a 1967 car
by California, having arrived in the USA after the beginning of the "new
model year" of 1967 in September 1966.

California also had a custom of adding the two-digit "model year" to the
front of the factory VIN on paperwork such as titles, e.g. 67HBJ8L38231.
This has caused problems for later owners who moved a car titled in
California to another state or country and encountered resistance from the
authorities in registering the car because the paperwork did not match the
VIN plate exactly.

Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
AHCA Delegate at Large
Havelock, NC USA

-----Original Message-----
From: Niels Bengaard [mailto:bengaard at 850r.dk] 
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014 5:22 AM
To: 'BJ8Healeys'; healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: SV: [Healeys] what year

What does the plastic sign next to the voltage regulator mean?
Like on my car,
http://healey.850r.dk/albums/Picture%20Album/album/ID/slides/DSCF0093.jpg
It says BMC-67, but the car is from October 1966 according to the BMIHT,
HBJ8L38231.

Niels