[Healeys] Early 3000 badging.

[gradea1 at charter.net]

Folks- in order to interest the US buyer, BMC tried to show LHD cars
in their literature. Since they already had this stock photo for the
home market; they simply "flopped" (printing term) the picture to put
the steering wheel correct. They hoped you would not see the
incorrectly located badge or licence plate letters they obliterated.
They would read backward...so would the hair part.

	The change point from 100-6 to 3000 was in March 1959 at Chassis
BN4/77766 and BN6/4650 into 3000 chassis 101. I'm sure they had a box
of 100-6 badges and horn buttons on the line and, knowing the fugal
British, they kept installing them on grilles and steering wheels
"until the stock was exhausted" (USE). That terminology is in their
parts books. Who knows what cars originally got those items? Surmise
the March build date listed on your BLM certificate would be the best
indicator of badge overflow. Hank (healeyhelper.com)

	-----------------------------------------From: "Jean Caron" 
To: "Michael Salter", "healeys at autox.team.net"
Cc: 
Sent: Tuesday March 10 2020 6:42:58PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Early 3000 badging.

	Michael, 

	While I do no own a 3000, I have a 100-6 BN6 and cannot comment on
what the owners will find, it appears that the factory did not bother
themselves too much with that. Here is the proof, Publication 1733, a
pamphlet advertising the new Austin Healey 3000 has two 100-6 in the
photo. You can clearly see, under magnifying glass, that the flash on
the grille of TYV818 is a 100-6, while the car in the foreground well,
you cannot tell but the rear reflectors are of the bullet types, found
only on the 100-6. 

	And here to make matter even more interesting, I also included
Publication 1405 for the Austin Healey 100 Six and the cover photo has
the extremely rare 100-6 with the door lock on the right side and the
flash badge on the right hand side too, try to find one of these?
Inside the pamphlet here is a car of the same colour as the one on the
cover, in front of the same house, same people in the car although it
appears that the guy parted his hair on the other side on the second
photo and suddenly the steering wheel is on the other side, isn’t
that amazing? 

	Jean 

	FROM: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] ON BEHALF OF
Michael Salter
 SENT: Wednesday, 11 March 2020 8:36 AM
 TO: healeys at autox.team.net
 SUBJECT: [Healeys] Early 3000 badging. 

	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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