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Re: NOS?

To: ZoboHerald@aol.com
Subject: Re: NOS?
From: Bill McLeod <wbmcleod@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:43:50 -0700
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
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And, of course, any of those items on ebay and elsewhere, new or used,  
with or without a box or a label, automatically becomes NOS "Nice Old 
Stuff".
Bill

ZoboHerald@aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 9/23/2003 12:35:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>Ryoung@navcomtech.com writes:
>
>  
>
>>...I've had sellers argue that
>>anything that's been on the shelf for over a year is "NOS" ... sometimes
>>when it isn't even the right brand !
>>    
>>
>
>Technically, some such items might better be labeled as "NORS" or New Old 
>REPLACEMENT Stock. A genuine Lucas lens in an old red and black box would be 
>NOS. (The same genuine Lucas lens in a current green Lucas box is just a new 
>part; eventually it might become sort of "NOS"!) An old Beck-Arnley "replica" 
>of that same Lucas lens would be NORS.
>
>--Andy Mace




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