[Healeys] Early 3000 badging.

[Simon Atkinson]

Hi Michael,

I have a 59 BT7. Body #152 from March of 1959. It has 100/6 badging but we are currently in the middle of a complete restoration so all the original chrome is boxed up. I can dig out the emblems this weekend and email. 
Thanks,
Simon

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> On Mar 10, 2020, at 5:36 PM, Michael Salter <michaelsalter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Here is one for the early 3000 owners.
> 
> I'm working on some corrections in the Concours Guidelines and trying to get confirmation of something that is stated within them.
> 
> The Guidelines state "On the BN4, the front grille flash had the number "6" in a circle cast into the badge following the "100". This badge may also have been used on some of the first 340 BT7/BN7s produced in 1959".
> 
> This means that some of the first 3000's would could have had 100/6 badging and, in the interests of accuracy, we need to have this confirmed.
> 
> When the 3000 was introduced there was a lot of razzmatazz and hoopla about the "new and improved" engine.
> 
> Considering this from the perspective of a buyer of a new 3000 I can only imagine that he/she would be incensed if the car was delivered with 100/6 badging!!
> 
> Does anyone out there have an early 3000 with original 100/6 badging?
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to read this.
> 
> Michael Salter
> 
> Concours Guidelines Committee.
> 
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