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

[Charlie Baldwin]

How many of you with a BN1 have the original cup holder mentioned in the 
referenced article?  That must be a very rare item since no more can be 
made.

Charlie


On 1/5/2015 7:05 PM, HealeyRick wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> There's more information on the car here: *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 
> <mailto: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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