<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I have the car registered in The Austin Healey Club of America 100 Registry. It is a BN1 with Le Mans conversion. Not sure when the conversion was done.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Last I saw the car listed was at Gullwing Motors (NY) in late 2011. It apparently went to the UK after that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Randy</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Randy Hicks</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">AHCA 100 Registrar</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><a href="mailto:ahca100registrar@gmail.com" class="">ahca100registrar@gmail.com</a></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><a href="http://www.austinhealey100m.com" class="">www.austinhealey100m.com</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';  font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';  font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';  font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';  font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 5, 2015, at 5:05 PM, HealeyRick <<a href="mailto:healeyrik@gmail.com" class="">healeyrik@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-size:13px" class="">Hi John,</span><div style="font-size:13px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:13px" class="">There's more information on the car here: <b style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://tinyurl.com/kskyb5h" target="_blank" class="">http://tinyurl.com/kskyb5h</a>  </b></div><div style="font-size:13px" class="">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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:07 PM, John Harper <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:ah100register@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">ah100register@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear All<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Having made just a quick check I cannot find any car in our database with that UK registration number.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Century;" class="">
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