Jerry Oliver wrote:
>
> Hi everybody;
> Here, here to John Mac. One brief addition to the Commission plate dating
> discussion; The early USA TR6 (1969 & 1970?) commission plate had a Fed
> compliance statement, and a blank for a date, presumably indicating the date
> of compliance of that model? Or was the stamped date the same as the actual
> build date? I had understood it to be the last date of compliance review??
> Piggott states its the month and year of manufacture (page 118). Any TR6
> experts out there?
I re-examined the three plates I mentioned in my earlier message and the two
Spitfire 1500 Plates both clearly state "MANUFACTURED DATE" next to the
stamped-on date. The GT6+ plate on the other hand has the statement, "THIS
VEHICLE COMPLIES WITH ALL U.S. FEDERAL SAFETY STANDARDS. APPLICABLE ON".
I can't say say what the TR6 in question has, but it seems that the differences
are a matter of the time frame in which the vehicle was built. In the
case of the plates I have, the GT6+ was built in the 69-70 time frame and the
Spit ones were done in 73-75. I can't say for sure, but highly suspect
that all Triumphs of a common era has the same sort of information on their
individual plates. So, based on that theory, if the TR6 in question was
built in the 69-70 range, I expect that date is a compliance date rather than a
manufactured date. But if it was made later, the reverse may be true.
Joe
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