[ROVERNET - UK] 3-2000TC's for sale- mystery numbers

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Sat Feb 9 07:22:27 GMT 2008



"..The other Federal cars were the series II cars with commission numbers starting in 435... these 
are especially rare  since there were only a couple of hundred or so made.."


See my listing http://www.roverp6.info/Produktionszahlen.htm


Rudiger





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Von: "Aidrian Bridgeman-Sutton" <smokeandsteam at gmail.com>
An: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
Gesendet: Samstag, 9. Februar 2008 03:37
Betreff: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] 3-2000TC's for sale- mystery numbers


> On 2/7/08, Nathan Obuch <nathanobuch at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Kent,
>>
>> What do you mean by "a 418 and an 859?"
>> Are these VIN prefixes or something?
>>
>
>
> 418 is the first three digit in the commission number and identifies
> the car as LHD export - i.e. markets including but not limited to
> North America whereas 859 is a Federal car for North America only
>
> The reason of the overlap is that the 418 series cars continued to be
> sold in other LHD markets after the Federal cars were introduced. NADA
> cars were a subset of these but shared the commission numbers for
> other LHD export cars.As I understand it  the NADA cars were simply
> seen a unique combination of options on the basic export TC rather
> than a separate model
>
> A 418 or NADA car will have the  no side markers and no US emission
> controls, whereas the 859 car would have had these from new as well as
> dual braking circuits which necessitated treating this as a different
> model on the assembly lines
>
> The other Federal cars were the series II cars with commission numbers
> starting in 435... these are especially rare  since there were only a
> couple of hundred or so made
>
> Aidrian
>
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