[Healeys] You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch

[HealeyRick]

Hi John,

There's more information on the car here: *http://tinyurl.com/kskyb5h
<http://tinyurl.com/kskyb5h>  *
According to the owner, the car was purchased by a U.S. soldier in Germany,
shipped to the U.S. in the 60s and went back to the UK in 2013.

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:07 PM, John Harper <ah100register at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All
>
> Having made just a quick check I cannot find any car in our database with
> that UK registration number.
>
> I have to presume that this means that the owner had not registered his
> car with the Austin-Healey Club UK. As you said with a chassis number it
> would help us all to keep an eye out for the car.
>
> I get the feeling that the registration (marque)  number 856 YUK would not
> have been issued when the car was young. It was issued in Wolverhampton but
> only counties or metropolitan areas' who had used up all the prefix
> letters, would have used the reverse system of numbers before letters. YUK
> is a long way from the first used of say xxx AUK so I would venture to
> guess that this registration was issued in the early the 1960s but before
> the extra suffix letter was added in 1962.
>
> This could mean that the car came back from outside the UK; but this sort
> of speculation is of no help without a chassis number.
>
>
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> John Harper
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