<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Steve--</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">The timeline aside, my question is WHY?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">I have heard it said that it was due to a supplier's mistake and that BMC cut a deal on the badges in return for not returning them but that really sounds unlikely.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Best--Michael Oritt</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 11:09 AM, BJ8Healeys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sbyers@ec.rr.com" target="_blank">sbyers@ec.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">The BJ7 badge had "Austin-Healey", and the BJ8 badge has it without the hyphen.   There is only one part number in the BMC parts list for the BJ7 badge, and one for BJ8, so only empirical data would identify if there was a change point in the middle of the models.  Previous discussions didn't surface anyone who had a BJ7 badge without the hyphen, or a BJ8 badge with it.<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">Steve Byers</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">HBJ8L/36666</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">BJ8 Registry</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">AHCA Delegate at Large</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">Havelock, NC  </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></span><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Michael Oritt [mailto:<a href="mailto:michael.oritt@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.oritt@gmail.<wbr>com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, September 11, 2016 10:44 AM<br><b>To:</b> Gary R. Brierton<br><b>Cc:</b> BJ8Healeys; Healeys<span class=""><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Healeys] 3000 Mk III cloisonne front badge<u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#3333ff">Now that we are all focused on the badge I would like to put out a question--one that I have asked before and never received what seemed to have been a definitive answer:  <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><span class=""><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#3333ff"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#3333ff">How and when did "Austin-Healey" as written on the earlier badges become "Austin Healey" as was done on the badges for later cars?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#3333ff"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#3333ff">Best--Michael Oritt<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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