Catching up on email -
I had heard that the STC = "Sold To Customer";
Carl
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ArthurK101@aol.com [SMTP:ArthurK101@aol.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 1998 5:56 PM
> To: dhoward@jht.com; triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: "STC" plate on TR4
>
> In a message dated 98-01-30 13:54:22 EST, you write:
>
> > It is a Supplemental Type Certificate changing the model year to the
> > year on the plate. These were routinely applied to left over cars
> on
> > the dealer's lot at the end of a model year, usually Sept. 30.
> >
> > My TR3-A built in August of 1960 is STC'd as a 1962 model.
> >
> > Cheers, Don J. Howard
>
> Don, thanks. I agree. As far as I can detemine, that appears to be
> what
> happened. And it appears to have happened routinely in California.
> Guess the
> dealers were worried about not being able to sell "last year's" model
> when
> their US-made counterparts had fairly big changes each year.
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