Hey Doug!
I see your point, but my analogy was when things were manufactured and
introduced, not when the materials were available.
In your example, 'my' car would still be a 1965 model, built in '64. Even
if it did use the steel that was from the 1960 stockpile.
In your original reply to this post, you were saying that purchasing a 2000
model year car in 1999 isn't logical. I never did like the way they've done
that. My understanding is that it was originally done as a one-upmanship
(is that English?) kind of thing. The companies wanted to get their product
available to the consumer ahead of the competition. And so they made them
available a little earlier ... and it kept escalating until they really
couldn't go much earlier.
If the car was built early and spent some of it's early life in shipment to
the US or in storage or even if it was introduced a bit early or perhaps it
didn't sell and sat on the lot beyond the model year, I think that we are
still correct in calling it by the model year for which it was produced. ??
Robert D.
How did I get myself into this?
... and how do I get myself out? # ;^)>
-----Original Message-----
>C'mon now Robert, you can mess with my mind better than that......
>
>So, if the iron ore that was made into the steel that your car was made
from
>was extracted from the mine in 1955, and sat in a stockpile until 1960, is
>your car a 1955 or a 1960?
>
>Top that! ;)
>
>Doug Ingram
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Duquette <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
>To: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Date: Saturday, August 07, 1999 3:07 PM
>Subject: Re: finding out more
>
>
>>Let me mess with your mind a bit ...
>>
>>If your child was conceived in 1999 and born in 2000, what is it then? #
; ^)>
>>
>>Robert D.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Doug Ingram <dougi@home.com>
>>...
>>>greater value. How can you go out today and buy a 2000 model year car
when
>>>it is only August 1999? If your child is born next week, are you going to
>>>tell people it was born in the year 2000?
>>...
>>>
>>>Doug Ingram
>>>Victoria BC
>>>1958 Frogeye (April 10, 1958)
>>>AN5L/636
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: robert weeks <robert@woozy.com>
>>>>To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>>>>Date: Thursday, August 05, 1999 5:06 AM
>>>>Subject: Re: finding out more
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>This brings up a question I had been wondering about. Do people
consider
>>>>>their car's age from the date built or the date sold or originally
>>>>>registered? My Midget was built in 1968 and sold in 1969 (vin dates it
>at
>>>>>68 - registration dates it at 69)
>>>>>
>>>>>So do I have a 1968 Midget or a 69? No big deal either way, just
>curious.
>>>>>
>>>>>Robert
>>>>>http://www.woozy.com/midget
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