Matt,
My car has a body tag but is not an A/C car.
Matt,
My car has a body tag but is not an A/C car.
Brian Mc Evilly
Former Mark II Owner
Matt,
Same here, mine has a body tag (paint too thick to read it) but never was an AC car.
Mark Norris
C56G3186
1963 Aston Martin DB4 Series V Vantage
1951 C-type Jaguar (alloy replica)
1934 Lagonda M45 Tourer
Brian:
2897 is a factory air conditioned equipped car; is that correct? And your body tag does not have A/C. So can we assume that the A/C on the body tag has no correlation with being factory equipped with air conditioning? I think so. Please advise. Does anyone know if there was a meaning to the "A/C" on the body tag? And what it designated?
John
Last edited by jdsnoddy; 10-09-2019 at 01:47 PM.
John Snoddy
See I was right-- Wrong again
Matt Cashion
C56C2524
This post is late to the party.
The bodies were manufactured by the Bentley-Mitchell Company of Owasso Michigan. Originally there were two body styles, the A/C version with the nostrils and the non A/C version with no rear fender openings. B/M put body tags on the cars for some unknown internal control reason - the A/C cars were given the tags (although exceptions have been noted). Once nostrils were dropped, the body tags were no longer used (although at least one exception has been noted).
Pat Marshall
Lancaster, OH
Thanks for this. And that's why you're the Historian. :-)
V/R,
John
John Snoddy