I'm not commenting on the eBay tr6, or verifying the "authors" claims. I
don't know about TR6 commission plates and am certainly not disputing
anybody,s claims here...but just for the record...my ORIGINAL still on the
car commission number plate on my Spitfire has stamped in quite legible
characters January 1972 right at the top as well as the usual, trim, paint
and FK----- number at the bottom of the plate. This plate is one that I
have rarely if ever seen in any of the parts outlets. It's much bigger
about 3 1/2 inches square instead of the more usual rectangular ones seen.
But I don't doubt that it is the original one. I bought the car, from a
dealers lot in 1973 and it' s been on there since -
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>September or October 1968. Gave him this info. and he claims the April
>date is on the "VIN" plate and Piggot is
>wrong.
>Then I would respectfully suggest that you revert to him again with
>the combined compliments of this list, Bill Piggott and the
>undersigned and leave him in no doubt that Standard Triumph did not
>put manufacturing dates on VIN plates because they didn't exist in
>those dates. They used things called Commission Plates and they didn't
>put the dates on those either! For the record, if a customer enquired
>the manufacturing date of a car when it was new, we wouldn't tell him
>(or her) On some occasions the cars had been sitting in UK stock so
>long before shipment that it was a positive embarrasment to reveal
>when they were made - to anyone.
Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net
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