What's the correct term to use?

[Paulfc]

Hi, 

My GT6 was manufactured in October 1970 but not sold, taxed and insured etc. until 1972. How should I legitimately refer to it ? Should I say it's a1970 or a 1972 car, and, does it matter? I don't want to misrepresent it.

thanks,

Paul

[Clive]

Doesn't matter at all. Unless it is a mk2? In which case it may need a bit of explaining. If a mk3 I would be surprised if it didn't sell sooner, being one of the very first of that model (and the MK2's not selling)

[Dick Twitchen]

Clive's right, it doesn't really matter.  My GT6 left the factory in Nov 1967 and not registered until 1 Jan 69, and the Heritage Certificate says so; just makes for a talking point when people comment on the Registration Number.

Dick

[dougbgt6]

As Clive says, if it's a mk3 it's one of the first and strange that the new model took 2 years to sell. There's a story there somewhere!

db

[Paulfc]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the responses. Are there any folk still around from the 1970s who might know what the story may be? Heritage certificate confirms the dates etc.

Paul

 

[Clive]

It could be allsorts. We are now assuming it is one of the first mk3's rather than just a mk2 that nobody wanted owing to the new model.

It could have just been stuck in a showroom? Or even got badly damaged before being registered, and took ages to repair before being sold (it does happen! I remember a chap buying a new sierra that got dropped off a transporter, but hadn't been registered. He repaired it, and then registered it is a brand new car. If it hasn't been registered, it wouldn't get recorded as a write-off)

 

[dougbgt6]

Or, if it was an early new model marketing could have whisked it off to assorted motor shows, then stuck it back in the sales system when they'd done with it. How close are the engine and VIN numbers to the start of the new model?

db

[Colin Lindsay]

Probably as Clive says a showroom model. My 948 Herald was built in 1962 but not sold until 1964, and sat in a local showroom until the first owner took pity on it. (and kept it for over 40 years, in the end...)

[Paulfc]

Hi,

The body shell is number 23 and the engine number 83. Gearbox and diff have been replaced. It wasn't despatched from the factory (or released into the sales stream to A G Boyles, Huddersfield) until December 1971.

Paul

[ShaunW]

Surely it's right to call it a 1970. If the car had been put in a barn by the dealer and never sold, it wouldn't be a 2018. 

[Colin Lindsay]

It would be if it was only first registered when it came out... 

[dougbgt6]

It's a 1970 car first registered in 1972. Simples.

Mine's a  February 1973, I have to say the month as if it were a January 1973 it wouldn't be a late mk3. 

db

[Qu1ckn1ck]

My 1980 Built MGB was first registered in 1996, hence the registration:

 

 

[llessur]

What's the story behind that?

[ShaunW]

Doug's nailed it. I get the idea of a registration date, but like a child that's adopted, dob is key for me not the date a government bod decided it needed a piece of paper. 

 

 

[Colin Lindsay]

It's a bit like the difference between a birth and a christening then; you've been around a bit before someone officially gives you a name...

Although if you took the date of conception rather than birth we could all retire 9 months early...

[Anglefire]

I like that idea - though my retirement date is still about 15years away.

[68vitesse]

I've got some years to spare if you can figure out a way to transfer them, then I might still be able to hire a car if needed.

Regards

Paul

[ShaunW]

I used to wish retirement came sooner. But the closer it gets the further away I wish it was. 

[Chris A]

Retiring can come as a shock as it happens suddenly, overnight.

I have been (sort of) lucky. I stopped working 6 years ago but wasn't retired - the company I worked for went into liquidation - I took my UK private pension last year so became 1/3 retired. My UK state pension kicked in this year so I moved to 2/3 retired. Next year my French pensions start so I will be 100% retired.

Retire in stages that way you can work up to it. As I tell friends still working - They get weekends off & paid holidays whereas me being retired is a 7 day a week 52 weeks a year thing 

This year I will be 'officially' old as I will get my invitation to the village old folks meal in November. ?

[Colin Lindsay]

I'm coming up on my first year of retirement; I was able to go well in excess of the Gov. pension age thanks to a good (but expensive) pension scheme and to be honest I've no idea how I was able to fit work in among all the other things. I'm out of bed very early most days, doze off about 9 these evenings, and just work or run about like a headless whatever in between.

I still can't get used to it and have the idea in the back of my head that I'm going to be called back in at any time, so need to get things done asap before the free time runs out. 

 

[68vitesse]

Managed to get a four day week at sixty then a few years later a three day week, thought I would do a couple of years past sixty five but resigned after nine months.

Best thing I did, work just gets in the way.

Regards

Paul

 

[Ian Faulds]

I like colin was lucky and had an excellent company pension, I went at 61 after working there for 30 years all my human bits still work ok so I feel very lucky. I didn't think much about retiring before, but we had a good plan to move house and I still have a young family, so the house and family keep me busy, the house is about done now so at last I am getting back on the triumph . I am really enjoying retirement when 5 years ago I didn't think I would. now I don't know how I fitted work in.

[andycrews1]

I \also had a good pension scheme and managed to leave four years early. I remember walking out of the building (slighty the worse for wear) and never looked back.

 

AZndy

[Chris A]

W*$k, we don't use that sort of language on this forum surely? ?