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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>Warren, the bumper reflectors are given in the BMC BJ7/BJ8 parts manual as effective from body number 76138 and up (that is approximately chassis 31336, but BMIHT data also gives body number 76138 for chassis 31259. Obviously, one is incorrect, but at this point I do not know which). From Clausager, that would coincide with the change to separate indicator lights under the headlamps.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>Cars for West Germany and Sweden had the reflectors from the beginning of BJ8 production. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>The reflectors and brackets are easily removed, and I've noticed that many of the restorations also have no external mirrors, even if they had them before the restorations. Probably the thinking was that the car is "cleaner" without those items.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>Steve Byers</span><span style='color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>HBJ8L/36666</span><span style='color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>BJ8 Registry</span><span style='color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>AHCA Delegate at Large</span><span style='color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>Havelock, NC </span><span style='color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><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"'> Warren [mailto:flyhihealey@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 17, 2018 7:19 AM<br><b>To:</b> BJ8Healeys; 'Deejay2650'; healeys@autox.team.net<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Healeys] BJ8 at RM Hershey auction<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I noticed some of these cars do not have rear bumper reflectors. When did reflectors first appear? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My car #41574 built May 1967 came with reflectors on top of bumper as indicated in attached photo.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>WD 67 BJ8<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:sbyers@ec.rr.com">BJ8Healeys</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, October 16, 2018 9:04 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:deejay2650@gmail.com">'Deejay2650'</a>; <a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Healeys] BJ8 at RM Hershey auction<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>Hi, Darryl - <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>With exactly 553 cars leaving the factory in Metallic Golden Beige paint, they represent 3% of total BJ8 production. It is not true that all were built in calendar year 1967. The first one (32552) was built 14 - 15 July 1965 and sent to the Donald M. Healey Motor Company in Warwick. It was Bic Healey who said that he was responsible for the color on BJ8s because he had always admired it on Jaguars. Given the build date and destination of the first car, it is possible that it was intended as a "prototype" for DMHCo to evaluate how the color looked on an Austin-Healey. This car still exists in private ownership in England. The second car (38374) was built 4 October - 23 November 1966 as an Earls Court show car. Perhaps this one was intended to gauge public reaction before going into production, although it seems likely that by that date a lot of additional Metallic Golden Beige chassis had already been built, painted, and delivered to Abingdon. This car also still exists in England. The third car was 40190, which began production on 12 January 1967. The rest of them were built in calendar year 1967, but not all in chassis number sequence. Rather, there are chassis numbers in sequence for groups of different sizes, interspersed with other colors. The first four cars were UK Home market specification, the first and third had red leather trim, the second had red Ambla.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>The first LHD car was 40202, with Black Ambla trim. It was also a Personal Export Delivery car.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>516 of them were LHD (93%), 37 (7%) were RHD. Of the RHD, 35 were UK Home Market, 1 went to Japan, and 1 to Switzerland.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>86 had red trim (16%), 467 had black (84%).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>71 LHD cars had red trim (16%), 445 had black trim (84%). Only 1 of the 445 had black leather, the rest had Ambla. No LHD cars had red leather.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>15 RHD cars had red trim (41%), 22 had black trim (59%). None had black leather, 2 had red leather.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>Distribution of the LHD Metallic Golden Beige cars through Ports of Entry is given in the attachment. POEs are as identified in BMIHT data.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>Steve Byers</span><span style='color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>HBJ8L/36666</span><span style='color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>BJ8 Registry</span><span style='color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>AHCA Delegate at Large</span><span style='color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>Havelock, NC </span><span style='color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><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"'> Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Deejay2650<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 15, 2018 10:16 PM<br><b>To:</b> healeys@autox.team.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Healeys] BJ8 at RM Hershey auction<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>G'day all,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>My BJ8 was factory finished in Metallic Golden Beige (Code BG19) with a build date of late April early May 1967 according to my BMIHT Certificate and has a black interior.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>According to Anders Ditlev Clausager's book "Original Austin-Healey", Metallic Golden Beige is a rare colour, that I am led to believe to be only applied to the 1967 BJ8's, with the MGB/Red interior being the rarest of all. Steve Byers, please chime in mate if I am wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>If this info is correct, any BJ8 in MGB that is NOT a '67 model then it is not the original colour.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Darryl Ross<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>HBJ8L/41258<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Wagga Wagga NSW<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>