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

[David Sheuring]

Ok...I have to ask....whats a Venn diagram? As I am a
partial educated man who is still workin g on his
college degree.
Cheers
David
--- Nathan Obuch <nathanobuch at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks, I understand now. All this talk of subsets
> enough to make one want to draw a Venn diagram! 
> 
> Nathan
>  
> 
> 
> --- Aidrian Bridgeman-Sutton
> <smokeandsteam at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 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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