Another of my 'senior moments' :) The acid test to determine whether it's a
prototype/mule is to check the commission number. If the leading or only
letter in the row is an 'X' then that means Experimental, so it'll be a
mule. In the event the commission number looks 'normal' but is in the first
three or four of the start of the model series, then this will signify the
car was probably built 'off tools' meaning it was effectively bolted
together by hand. 'Off tools' cars were usually used by the company as Press
Cars and an example is Stag. LD1DLBW was a RHD car that's still in the UK
while LD2LDLBW was a LHD and shipped to the US to become the US launch car
and was finally finished as a complete restoration by Joe Pawlak (ISOA) in
Illinois last year. Joe found a lot of peculiar *little* things on LD2 in
comparison to two other later Stags he's rebuilt that were peculiar to those
cars, though you'll have to ask him what they were.
Moral here, is don't believe anything you're told unless the seller can
fully document his/her claim. A Heritage Certificate is the only accurate
and dependable document, so if seller can't produce one of those, don't get
excited about what he claims it 'might' be.
Jonmac
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