<div dir="ltr">Steve,<div><br></div><div>Thanks so much for chiming in on this car. With the deadline for my "Auction Report" column in Healey Marque looming over my head, this was to be the lede car. The extra info you provided will add to the story. The buyer of the car just posted that the car would not start during the auction and its brakes were bad. It was also sold on Thursday, not an ideal slot to get the most return. He bought the car for $33k and resold it again before leaving the auction.</div><div><br></div><div>As far as Mecum goes, they've been expanding their Healey offerings as of late and although formerly a muscle car and street rod auctioneer, they managed to sell a non-factory metallic golden beige 66 BJ8 at Kissimmee in January for $104,000 (check out the Auction Report in the April issue of the Marque)</div><div><br></div><div>Happy Healeying,</div><div>Rick Neville</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 6:22 AM BJ8Healeys via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif";color:black">Previously offered for sale at Russo & Steele auction in Newport
Beach, CA in July 2017, and on BaT from Washington state in December 2019.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif";color:black">This car claims to be chassis 29295, which originally had body
number 74166. However, it has a reproduction VIN plate and the external
configuration of the lights argue for a body later than 76137. With clues like
that, I’m always suspicious that the car is what it claims to be. Folks would
be amazed at the number of BJ8s that have acquired a different identity from
what it left the factory with.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif";color:black">Steve Byers<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif";color:black">Havelock, NC USA<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net" target="_blank">healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>richard mayor via
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 21, 2022 7:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Healeys<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Healeys] BJj8 at Mecum<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m told this car sold for only $33,000. Must be the
color. It looks like a girls car to me. <u></u><u></u></p>
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