[TR] Build date question??

[Dean Tetterton]

Explains how my 60 TR3A is titled a 1962 in the state of Virginia. TS 69056 L

Dean


On Jul 6, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Ted Schumacher wrote:

> 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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