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![]() Hi all,
My wife and I have been trying to find out some info about her 75. I contacted Reebs to enquire about the build records, but unfortunately the car falls into a group of Cowley built cars where the records are missing. The car was registered in May 2001 (on a Y plate) and has a number plate ending with a PR suffix, which I understand was the area code for Bournemouth. This makes sense as the paperwork shows it was sold by a dealer in that area. To try and get an idea of the build date I've had a look at a couple of stickers hidden under the rear seat and behind the LSM. These both feature the correct VIN and interestingly a date of 15/10/1999. On my Longbridge built 75, the same stickers have a date of 09/08/2001 and I know the car came off the production line the day after, 10/08/2001. Does anyone have any theories on why a car built roughly in Oct 1999 would not be registered until May 2001? Was it possibly an ex-demo car? Cheers
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![]() What is the numbers at the end of the chassis number? I have a v reg that isn’t in the data but see how far away from mine it is.
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![]() Mine appears to have been built Nov ish 99 but was not registered until April 2000.
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![]() Mine is 106404 and got out of the factory precisely - as written below - on the 1st of July 1999. She was sold on Xmas eve 1999. Hence clearly not an ex-demonstrator car which were built earlier in Spring.
Yours being 129899 I guess she may have been built in the beginning of Autumn.
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Your car being roughly number 6000 that year would place my wife's car, roughly number 29000, as being made around Autumn of 1999, assuming production was fairly evenly distributed between July and the end if the year. I just find it odd that a year and half passed between manufacture and registration. Weird. Cheers
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![]() Yep, sounds like a jap spec, the other giveaways are dimpled crown alloys, and headlight washers fitted with standard headlights.
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![]() The car did indeed used to have the flatter faced Crown alloys with dimples in-between the bolt holes, but has since had Serpents fitted. No headlight washers though.
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![]() The only Japanese spec car I've see used to belong to Tim Burgess, Y reg, vin 119841
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My S Reg wasn’t put on the road till 2001 but it’s declared manufactured date got it a S Reg and is one of the DEH Pre Production Cars Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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