a car can be listed as the folowing model year if it is
available for sale as early as january 1st of the previous
year. ex: the 1999 miata was available for sale in
february of 1998. and a 2001 model year car can be made
available no earlier than january 1st, 2000.
--- Susan Hensley <susan@bearcom.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Laura!
>
> Cars can be built in one year to be introduced as the
> next year's
> model. This usually happens in the fall of the preceding
> year -- I had
> two 1970 Spits, one spring 1970 and one fall 1969. They
> were both
> registered as 1970 models.
>
> Otherwise, how could we have the 2000 Neon out already???
> They're
> pushing the envelope...
>
> Keep Triumphing,
> Susan Hensley :)
>
> Laura G. wrote:
> >
> > Love those white topped round tails!!!
> >
> > SOmetimes the DMV does need explaining. A friend of
> mine just got a '76
> > Spit-he's puzzled because on the door plate, it says
> "Aug.'76"-but on the
> > registration it says '77.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Laura G. and Nigel
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
> > To: Scions of the Spitfire <spitfires@autox.team.net>
> > Date: Thursday, May 20, 1999 7:18 AM
> > Subject: Re: top [was interior] colors
> >
> > >
> > >On Thu, 20 May 1999, Kirby T. Kenyon wrote:
> > >
> > >> ...my car is listed with motor vehicles as being
> green / tan
> > >> but the soft top is black. Does anyone know if they
> offered a tan soft
> > top
> > >> (hood) in '80? The PO can't remember it ever having
> a tan top. I can't
> > >> imagine that the interior color would be listed as a
> body color for motor
> > >> vehicle purposes.
> > >
> > >I never heard of such a thing, either. But I also
> don't think there ever
> > >was a tan top offered (under normal circumstances) by
> the factory. Black
> > >was the "norm," although ISTR white tops might have
> been available at
> > >least on the early Mk.IV models. I know white tops
> were a bit more common
> > >on the older round-tail Spitfires.
> > >
> > >--Andy
> > >
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> > >* Andrew Mace, President and *
> > >* 10/Herald/Vitesse (Sports 6) Consultant *
> > >* Vintage Triumph Register <www.vtr.org> *
> > >* amace@unix2.nysed.gov *
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> > >
> > >
> > >
>
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