Richard,
When was your car built?
Bernard
BT7 244
richard mayor a icrit :
> When I got my BN7 #466 in 1977 it had a 100-6 bonnet with the center ridge. I
> always wondered if it was the original bonnet. Anyone know when the factory
> used up the last of the center ridge bonnets?
>
> Richard Mayor
> BN7L-466 Vintage Racer
> Portland, Oregon
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>> From: Editorgary@aol.com
>> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 01:11:48 -0500
>> To: healeys@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Badges on early "3000s"
>>
>> In a message dated 3/4/10 9:11:23 PM, healeys-request@autox.team.net
>> writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>> I have HBT7L/181... 13-18 march 1959.
>>> Everything matches on the heritage cert (paint etc..) but every emblem is
>>> 100/6 not 3000
>>>
>>>
>> It wasn't just a matter of badging. Based on the artifacts we've found, it
>> may be that the marketing folks didn't get around to deciding on the "3000"
>> name until a few months after production started up. For example, I have a
>> loose-leaf parts manual where the binder says "100-6 BN7-BT7," but the pages
>> inside say, in the same script in the same layout, "3000 BN7-BT7" -- Since
>> there would have been more lead time in preparing the manual covers than the
>> pages, it looks as if the car went into production intended to be just an
>> improved version of the 100-6.
>> In any case, the earliest 150 or so of the BN/BT7s were badges as 100-6s,
>> but there doesn't seem to be any consistent point of change (for example,
>>
> the
>
>> horn buttons on most early 3000s are actually 100-6 horn buttons, painted
>> over on the inside to cover up the 100-6.
>> So there you are.
>> Cheers
>> gary
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