[Spridgets] Secret Number

[Kitterer Bob]

If my memory is any good at all I think the number on the passenger side panel is Jenson's (they stamped the bodies).  It is sometimes close to the AN number but you can not count on it.  The ones on the door frame were BMC production line numbers used in assembly and were not recorded.

But then my memory may have gone to s**t also.

Bob Kitterer

1960 Austin Healey Sprite (Mk IV in disguise) - in storage
1966 Austin Healey Sprite Mk III (Trevor) - still in boxes - in storage

On Oct 26, 2010, at 7:32 PM, Skip Jackson wrote:

> Linda et al, The 'secret' number is located under the wiring harness in front
> of the scuttle (firewall) on the right (passenger) side.  Bend the two clips
> that hold the wiring and move it aside. The number is stamped, sometimes
> faintly, into the metal.
> BUT, the number is not necessarily meaningful.  My AN5L-37190 has a 'secret'
> number 14400.  I contacted the BMIHT about this number.  They said that
> AN5-14400 was a right hand drive sold domestically.
> The BMIHT says the the AN number on the left (driver) door jam is meaningless
> and not recorded on AN5's.  It is on later models. The 'Body Number' is a BAE
> number on the right door jam and is recorded. Mine is BEA/36780 on my BE's
> birth certificate.
> Skip J.  
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