BE COPO rear for sale??

[bergy]

The community is pretty astute about BE stamps. When a BV is changed to a BE (
today or from the factory) - the value obviously drops off considerably. also, most if not all of the original BE assembly dates are known. It is an interesting discussion though. I'm not doubting the story, just trying to make sense out of it. Why in the world would a BV rear be re-stamped to BE due to a lack of BE "parts". It would have to be the heat treated copo gears right? So, how does that make sense? If you're out of the BE specific components, and you decide to substitute BV components - why not just make a new BE rear using BV components? Why go to the trouble of taking an already assembled BV and changing the V to a E? Or maybe you're saying that it wasn't a parts shortage - the factory just made an error in stamping a real BE as a BV?

The whole thing makes no sense, but then again - I was the poor student at the Tonawanda foundry who spent a few days whacking part numbers on castings that were cast with partial part numbers missing! At the time, I didn't think that made much sense either.