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Re: serial number confusion

To: Jim <jdeatsc1@rochester.rr.com>
Subject: Re: serial number confusion
From: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 21:17:30 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Triumphs List <triumphs@autox.team.net>
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Jim wrote:

> FC68436L is the number.  PO says 1967, I find that it's a 1966
> (apparently constructed through January 1967) and yet the Spitfire
> Registry says it's a 1965.

According to information I have, your car would have been built sometime 
in calendar year 1965, as the first Spitfire Mk2 built in calendar year 
1966 was FC71766. But with a number has high as 68436, it's likely your 
car was built late enough in 1965 to have been considered a 1966 model 
even before it left Coventry (but certainly by the time it first was sold 
here or wherever).

--Andy

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