> There's a TR3 on ebay right now (Item number: 2461259666) that's
> advertised
> as a '61 with a VIN number in the 47000 range, yet my '60 has a VIN in the
> high 64000's. I know the vins aren't sequential through model
> years because
> of old stock etc.. plus that's US car and mine is Canadian (so
> that may mean
> they were warehoused on 2 different wharves) but that's nearly 20,000
> backlog! Can they both be right?
Yes, sorta. The practice then was to register the car in the year it was
sold (IOW they were perpetually 'new' cars as long as they sat on the
dealer's lot), and some cars sat on the dealer's lot for a long time. For
example, my Sports 6 was clearly made in 1963, but the paperwork indicates
it was first sold in 1965. (By then, there was a separate tag applied to
cars sold late, and I have the "STC-65" tag. But the tags were not required
in 1961.)
So, even though the car on eBay was probably made in early 1959, it may well
have been first registered as a '61.
Randall
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