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Re: What year B??

To: Dave Quirt <quirt@sk.sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: What year B??
From: Carl Elliott <grunt2@adelphia.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 21:40:12 -0500
Pull handle ? Raised handle with thumb  button on end.  Carl E.

Dave Quirt wrote:

> Well, I'm Canadian not American, but anyway:  My Iris Blue '65
> GHN3L62914 is a PUSHBUTTON-handle car. I used to have GHN3L56037 which
> was/is an Iris Blue PULL-handle '65.  The Canadian Bs, at least,
> followed the cut-off at 57985/57986.  Personally, I would have to SEE to
> believe any original pull-handle B after 57985.
>
> Dave Q.
>
> >Allen Bachelder wrote:
> My '65 B project car - GHN3L57254 - has pull handles.  Clausager's book
> indicates that pull-handle Bs go up about through 57985 if I remember
> correctly.  The approximate changeover seems to be about March of 1965.
> At one time mine was the latest surviving  pull-handle B known to the
> NAMGBR - but now there is a later one in the pull-handle registry.  I
> wrote to MGCC about this and got a response from a Swedish owner of a
> pullhandle 58254 (yes, exactly 1000 cars later than mine).  Don Bishop
> answered my letter in "Safety Fast" indicating that, Clausager to the
> contrary, pull handle cars went up through 65865.  Perhaps since
> pull-handles fell to US safety regulations,  cars destined for other
> markets continued to have pull-handles for awhile???  Go figure...  Any
> US owners out there with pull-handle cars later than 57985?
> <snip><


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