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I don't want to be seen as a killjoy but knowing how attentive many are to
originality, there's a real howler on the VTR website. It's in the top LH
corner of the home page where various Triumph pix dissolve into one another.
One of them is a white TR3A with a UK style licence plate HOJ 781 W. Does it
belong to anyone on the list?
As cars in the UK keep their licence plates for life, regardless of where
they are used or who owns them, the W on this plate indicates the car was
first registered between 1 Aug 1980 and 31 Jul 1981 - say nearly 20 years
after the car was produced? Even if the car had been imported into the UK in
1981, it would have been allocated an age-related registration, consistent
with its date of manufacture.
While the owner may seek to make his/her car have an 'Englishness' about it,
the best move would be to remove the W suffix and leave things as HOJ 781.
This would be much more in keeping with the type of licence plate layout for
the time - in fact 781 HOJ would be even better, because at about this
period (1958-1962) the order of numbers and letters was reversed.
No offence implied and just for the purists among you......................
:)
Cheers, Jonmac
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