mis-type, it is actually a 1997 (just) When it came to me it had a L reg on the front and a p on the back, the guy had taken off his vanity plates from one end only!!! the land rover is the best: it is an historic vehicle as it was built in
1972, but was not registered till 1976mrcheerful
What was it then? ..and don't say displacement on demand.
Sorry for the cross post, but this registration thing really seems wacky.
It isn't in order according to the years that have been posted.
Letter - Sequence Year - Posted Years
F - 67 - G - 68 - 69 H - 69 - - I - 70 - - J - 71 - - K - 72 - - L - 73 - - M - 74 - 73 N - 75 - - O - 76 - - P - 77 - - 76 Q - 78 - - R - 79 - - S - 80 - - T - 81 - - U - 82 - - V - 83 - 80 W - 84 - - 81 X - 85 - 82 Y - 86 - - 82 Z - 87 - - A - 88 - - B - 89 - - C - 90 - - 85 D - 91 - - E - 92 - - 87 F - 93 - - G - 94 - - H - 95 - -
You will notice there is a discrepancy in the M, V, W, X, and W tags. I was there in '82 so I know that X should be an '82.Most likely I and O are not issued, as confusion with numbers. But that still leaves big holes in P through V. Also, I had an M-reg and it was registered 19/07/74, so how is M a '73? I also had an H-reg and it was build in '69 and registered in '69, so it wasn't a '70.
The years originally started at january the first but got changed at about d reg to august.
so most of the letters have a possible two year date.
Without looking things up I can't remember every year of every car I own.
They did miss out I, Z, and O, Q is only used on undateable oddball stuff.
originally the letter was at the end, then at the beginning.
When at the beginning there is further confusion as the later letters changed every 6 months.
AAAAAARGHH
too many possibles
mrcheerful
Tom in Missouri ( snipped-for-privacy@spam.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
The letter changed (for the most part) on the 1st August...
A-suffix (ABC123A) came in on 1/1/63, and continued through to 31/12/63 E was a short one - 1/1/67 to 31/7/67, and F started the 1st August dates.
I,O,Q,U,Z weren't issued.
It turned around to A-prefix on 1/8/84, and continued through until they moved to a twice-yearly system with T on 1/3/99. Since then, it's been 1/3 and 1/9 as the change dates.
After Y-prefix, it moved to the current scheme - AB51CDE - where the two digits tell you when it was registered. 51 was the first, starting on
1/9/01, then 02 started 1/3/02, 52, 03, 53, 04 - take the two digit year for a summer plate, add 50 for a winter plate. That'll see us through to 2049...Q-prefix was (and still is) issued, but to vehicles of indeterminate age - kitcars, write-offs rebuilt using a second hand shell, etc.
Because the E suffix ran for less than a year, I think the A prefix actually started from 1/8/83.
Chris
PFFFFFFTTTTTT Co'mon man that was a lame attempt to save face. Find a Vette title that states it's an '83.
Variable displacement? Like the ole '81 Cadillac V8/6/4?
Hmmm, can't see anything on the website other than the active fuel management stuff which shuts down unneeded cylinders but that's not new.
Gonna give us a clue?
Tim
RicSeyler ( snipped-for-privacy@SPAMgulf.net) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Easy. That'll be any UK registered (in fact, probably any non-US- registered) Corvette that was first registered between 1/1/83 and 31/12/83.
Next.
Me too, mine are 54 for the car and 05 for the bike. I feel a right pikey.
Or you could say that S reg was the first of the 6-monthly prefixes - obviously not quite, but it certainly didn't last a year.
Aye, there's nothing like proper future-proofing.
The message from Adrian contains these words:
A wasn't a full year. The scheme didn't start till 1/2/63.
Variable valve timing.
...on a pushrod engine.
Fourth paragraph here:
Registration date model year.
Officially, There were no 1983 Corvettes. There were forty seven 1983 Corvettes made but none were ever sold. The National Corvette Museum has the only 1983 known at this time. The new Corvette plant in Bowling Green, KY closed in October of 1982 to begin retooling for the 1984 Corvette. Production began in January of 1983 and the press received their first view of the 1984 Corvette in January of 1983. In February, the first production
1984 Corvettes were sold to the public. In March of 1983, the 1984 Corvette officially went on sale in the United States, except for California and a month later, in April, the 1984 Corvette went on sale in California. By October of 1983, the plant was in full speed production.
Just looked it up - the variable displacement motor was not only in the V8-6-4 but is also a feature of the Dodge Hemi since 2004, on the Mercedes V-12 in the 1990's, and on more recent Hondas. Of note is that some manufacturers turn off entire banks of cylinders and others turn off opposing cylinders.
Likewise, every model year has several thousand built in the previous calendar year.
How many businesses operate on a fiscal year?
In another part of this thread, we went on about the British Number Plates. Well, I found a good link.
Not quite true. On each car is a VIN. This determines model year, not registration.
In fact, on the examples of British number plates in another part, some had registered later than the car was built. And if you import a car, does it become the model of the year it was imported? For example, you import a '67 Corvette in 1983, so it becomes a 1983 Corvette?
My British title for my Lotus doesn't say what year the car is, >> RicSeyler ( snipped-for-privacy@SPAMgulf.net) gurgled happily, sounding much like
The message from "Tom in Missouri" contains these words:
I don't know whether the system has changed since but from 1st January
1970 Lotus used the calendar year and month of manufacture as the first 4 digits of the identification number so there wouldn't be this nonsense about cars being sold prior to the start of their 'model year'.MotorsForum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.