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Re: car model years (was: car color)

To: nikolai jaremka <njaremka@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: car model years (was: car color)
From: Fred Thomas <vafred@erols.com>
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:36:55 -0400
I cannot speak for the rest of the country,  but in Virginia, no matter
when you buy a car it is registered as the "Certificate of Origin"
states it was built. Every new car in this country has a "CO", its da
law, how each state handles I have no idea.

nikolai jaremka wrote:

> 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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> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
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