[Healeys] Number of Center-change BN7s

ROBERT BROWN blkbt7 at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 20 06:48:12 MDT 2020


These numbers are for all BN7s.
How does one distinguish between the center shift and side shift MK IIs?
Just curious.

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> On Jun 20, 2020, at 7:28 AM, HealeyRick <healeyrik at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks, Patrick for your quick reply.  I've seen numbers of 354 and 355 with the 355 number seeming to be the correct
>  one.  Auction descriptions are probably the least accurate source for history, often wrong and surprisingly always in a way that would tend to make the vehicle on offer more valuable.  
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>> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 8:09 AM Patrick & Caroline Quinn <p_cquinn at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>> Hello Rick
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>> I would be interested in how they arrived at any figure.
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>> The first centre shift box in a BN7 MK2 was in BN7/16039 in Nov ’61 and the last was BN7/17547 in Jan 1962. Does that mean that there was 1,508? No it doesn’t as those numbers also included the Mk2 BT7 as well.
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>> What we do know are the numbers in 1962 and that’s 141 – 129 in LHD and 12 in RHD. Five RHD examples became Works Rally Cars.
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>> So how many were made in November and December 1961? Wouldn’t know.
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>> How many BN7 Mk2s were built? In total 355 – 316 in LHD and 39 in RHD.
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>> Hoo Roo
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>> Patrick Quinn
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>> From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of HealeyRick
>> Sent: Saturday, 20 June 2020 9:27 PM
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>> Subject: [Healeys] Number of Center-change BN7s
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>> Writing an auction article for Healey Marque about the auction of a center-change, tri-carb, BN7.  Auction house says 220 were built.  I've seen numbers of 354 and 125.  Anyone have the correct number?
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>> Thanks in advance,
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>> Rick Neville
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