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

[Nathan Obuch]

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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