It would seem that I have hit upon the Holy Grail part for my car. I easily
found one complete nos headlights assembly. I now know how lucky I was....
There has to be a nos rim out there somewhere. It might take a knights
templar.......
Cheers
Ira Erbs
Digs 4 Solutions
Computer Consultants
Portland, OR
On Dec 5, 2010 7:10 AM, "Bob Yule" <autofarm@cyg.net> wrote:
> It appears that Lucas used this same part number for quite a long time.
> We had some NOS rims in sealed boxes with this part number and although
they
> were the correct shape, they had no rivet. I did hear that very late BJ8's
> did not have the rivet, but have not been able to confirm that, one way or
> the other. We sold a pair to an owner on the west coast who was restoring
a
> BJ8 and his old rims had no rivet. No one could be sure that these were
> original to the car or replacements though.
> Cheers.......Bob
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Healey" <healey@hunterbane.com>
> To: "I Erbs" <eyera3@gmail.com>
> Cc: "healey help" <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 12:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] nos headlight ring
>
>
>> 54520673
>>
>> Olin Brimberry
>> 61 3000 MKII
>> BT7 Sideshifter TriCarb
>> healey@hunterbane.com
>> www.hunterbane.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 5, 2010, at 12:23 AM, I Erbs wrote:
>>
>>> anyone have the oem Lucas part # for the BT7 headlight rim
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Healey <healey@hunterbane.com> wrote:
>>> As a data point, I located a NOS set about 6 years ago in Lucas
>>> boxes that did not have the rivet. I know the source I bought these
>>> from and am certain that repros were not slipped in their place.
>>> While I agree that the rivet would be more correct, it was also not
>>> always present in the Lucas spares.
>>>
>>> Olin Brimberry
>>> 61 3000 MKII
>>> BT7 Sideshifter TriCarb
>>> healey@hunterbane.com
>>> www.hunterbane.com
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