[TR] Genuineness-ness-ness?

[John Macartney]

List

I don't want to be seen as a killjoy but knowing how attentive many are to 
originality, there's a real howler on the VTR website. It's in the top LH 
corner of the home page where various Triumph pix dissolve into one another.
One of them is a white TR3A with a UK style licence plate HOJ 781 W. Does it 
belong to anyone on the list?
As cars in the UK keep their licence plates for life, regardless of where 
they are used or who owns them, the W on this plate indicates the car was 
first registered between 1 Aug 1980 and 31 Jul 1981 - say nearly 20 years 
after the car was produced? Even if the car had been imported into the UK in 
1981, it would have been allocated an age-related registration, consistent 
with its date of manufacture.
While the owner may seek to make his/her car have an 'Englishness' about it, 
the best move would be to remove the W suffix and leave things as HOJ 781. 
This would be much more in keeping with the type of licence plate layout for 
the time - in fact 781 HOJ would be even better, because at about this 
period (1958-1962) the order of numbers and letters was reversed.
No offence implied and just for the purists among you...................... 
:)

Cheers, Jonmac