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[Francis]

Is there a way to know the approximate date my car was produced?
13207

[Lagondanet]

Francis

I'll see what I can find

[Francis]

Thank You, Roger

[Lagondanet]

Francis

LOOL 13207

Agent. Najeeb Al-Mutawa (Bahrain?)

Manufacture. 170982
Shipped. 081082

All I have. Hope this helps.

[Francis]

Yes that is the origin of my car. So this is actually a car that was build and shipped in 1982. I should then have been registered as a 1983 car... my registration (or the one I got from Bahrein) when I bought the car stated that it was a 1984 car. It probably was in the show room until sometimes in 1984 when it was first sold thus the 1984 registration.

Here in America, a car gets a year of production and that's it even if the car does not get sold for 5 years. If it was a production 1983 and sold in 1988 it still is a 1983 car. I think that in Germany and maybe elsewhere in Europe it also goes by first sale date.

Can anyone confirm that to be the case?

[Francis]

Roger,

Do you know how long a car stayed on the production line?

Or what date this car was started to be build?

[Vincent]

1.In Europe, every country has its own registration system. For example, in Belgium the car is considered to be new when first registered, even if the car was built 2 years before. It's the same in France. But I know in Poland they re-register imported vehicles with the production date and not the first registration date. I think in UK and in Holland, the cars are registered when new before being sold...
2.For the delay between "command" and "out of factory" I've read somewhere it took about 6 months (2000 hours of work with 2 men working on it ?) The motor took 1 week to himself !
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