[TR] Build date question??

[Ted Schumacher]

Hello list. With all the "build date" discussion, here is what really 
happened in the '60's at the dealer level. We were a BMC/Standard 
Triumph/Rootes dealer. Through 1967, at teh end of teh calendar year we 
were allowed to send back the CO (manufacturer's certificate of origin) 
to the appropriate mfg.  They would reissue an new CO shwoing the 
current calendar year.  Starting in 1968 with the advent of all the US 
laws on emissions, safety  and theft - think locking ignition w/dead 
bolt. VIN visible from outside the car, etc. - we could no longer do 
this.  But this is how "year of mfg" and year of car by title varied. 
Example, it's the first week of 1965. We send all gthe CCO's back to 
tghe appropriate mfg.  A bit later in the month, the '64 TR4 has become 
a '65. And if it was a real dog (color, equipment, interior) it was 
possible for the '64, now '65 to become a '66 12 months later. Ted


On 7/5/2013 9:57 AM, Chip19474 at aol.com wrote:
> Randall,
>   
> That's the best example of how crazy titling a Triumph can be!
>   
> It beats my TR6 which was built on July 5, 1976, but not shipped to the USA
>   until December, 1976, and not sold until April, 1977.....amazing....how
> did Brit  Leyland make any money leaving products laying around the docks for
> so  long!!??  Geez, by the time the first owner bought the car, the seals
> had  already started to dry rot from nonuse.
>   
> I guess it was a good thing that Triumph wasn't building TR6s at that
> point or the DOT would have called it a 1977 TR7....that would have raised a few
>   eyebrows!
>   
> Chip
>   
>   
> In a message dated 7/4/2013 7:45:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> TR3driver at ca.rr.com writes:
>
> Now  'funny' is the Sports 6 I used to have, which was built in 1963, but
> sold  new as a 1965 model.
>
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