[Healeys] BJ8 on Bring A Trailer

[HealeyRick]

$35,750 sale.
http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1967-austin-healey-3000-mk-iii/  Don't
think I'd want to list a car without a reserve these days.  Wonder if this
is the new market or an aberration?

Rick Neville

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 8:22 AM, BJ8Healeys <sbyers at ec.rr.com> wrote:

> In addition to using the body plate from another car and missing its
> engine serial number plate, some other features of the car make me doubt
> that it is really 41060.  It has the two studs for the rear attachment of
> seatbelts, rather than the single stud I would expect to see on a car as
> late as 41060 (and which began to appear consistently around chassis
> 37XXX).  The engine valve cover has the riveted metal plates, rather than
> the typical stickers of cars with engines from around chassis 37XXX.
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> Steve Byers
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> HBJ8L/36666
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> BJ8 Registry
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> AHCA Delegate at Large
>
> Havelock, NC
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> *From:* HealeyRick [mailto:healeyrik at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, October 28, 2016 8:10 PM
> *To:* BJ8Healeys
> *Cc:* Healeys
> *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] BJ8 on Bring A Trailer
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> Hard to believe they haven't changed the listing from a BJ7 to a BJ8 yet.
> It was advertised in January for $53K US:  http://www.ebay.com/itm/1968-
> Austin-Healey-3000-/331747112049?nma=true&si=kQdRxGtx7FSQ4bqA%
> 252B0FM3fnwPeI%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
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> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 9:59 AM, BJ8Healeys <sbyers at ec.rr.com> wrote:
>
> If it matters to any potential buyer, the BJ8 is using a body number plate
> from another car about ten thousand chassis numbers earlier than the VIN
> claimed, and the engine serial number plate is missing.  The text says the
> engine "is believed to be original", but with a missing tag there is no way
> to verify that, no matter what is "believed".
>
> Steve Byers
> HBJ8L/36666
> BJ8 Registry
> AHCA Delegate at Large
> Havelock, NC
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