Mini Petrol Powered Corvette 'Go-Kart' For Sale (7ft Long) On UK Ebay

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

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.

_____________________________________________________ " No, I'm not right in the head, I'm talking to you, ain't I? I also shipped to and from the UK on a regular basis and the "toy" as you call it is worth about $1000 used in the US. Unless they rip you off on packaging it's still a good buy at the $70us that is bid and I'd go much more. That's why it would help if the shipping cost was stated.

Hi There

We didn't put the US as an option as we thought that the shipping would be prohibitive. Didn't realise the US market was as big as it was. The crate that it came in has gone and we are not sure if it is worthwhile. I am happy to open this up to US people if they cab find out about shipping costs.

Thanks for the URL for the info

Ian

The message from Adrian contains these words:

A wasn't a full year. The scheme didn't start till 1/2/63.

Sorry, with the ignorant an arrogant reply received from the cross posted sites I would never consider bidding. I have purchased through Ebay from England before and keep English currency on hand as I travel there on vacation and work.

I have 6 young grandchildren that would love to ride in a Corvette sized for them as much as they would in Gramps car. Especially since one of them has gone to see London with me and the ambiance of having come from England would be attached to the go kart. That was the only reason for my reply to the original post.

Your suggestion if someone wanted to bid by finding out the shipping cost don't cut it, it has to come from you as you hold the final package size and shipper choice. I shipped a grandfather clock back and when we were getting shipping prices the variation on shipping cost could have killed the deal, as not knowing has in this case.

No cross posting this time, why is that? Never mind.

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

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.

Are you saying the cylinders do not operate at all, or that no fuel is fed into them and so they do not combust?

AJM