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Re: [Healeys] British Motor Heritage Certificate - Gearbox Number

To: Jonas Payne <JPayne@ThorCon.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] British Motor Heritage Certificate - Gearbox Number
From: Mike MacLean <rrengineer.mike@att.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 19:39:37 -0800
When I got a certificate for a 1958 Bugeye, they put the date of manufacture
1658.  Pretty sure they did not have Bugeyes in 1658.  Yes, they do make
mistakes.
Mike MacLean
56 BN2
60 AN5

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On Dec 6, 2011, at 19:18, "Jonas Payne" <JPayne@ThorCon.net> wrote:

> My Heritage cert came today, it indicates that my gearbox number should
> be "5140"
>
> My gearbox number is "5149"
>
> Seems pretty unlikely to me that somewhere in time, somebody replaced my
> gearbox with one this close?
>
> Stranger things may have happened, but seems a little odd in the cosmic
> order of 40,000 or so cars built that mine would end up with a gearbox
> swap with a number sequentially 9 off.
>
> Could it be that the records or the Heritage cert are wrong?
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> Jonas Payne
> PBR
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