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Uftonandy

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141800518 a good day
« on: September 01, 2022, 02:56:02 PM »
A good day
Very surprisingly everything seems to work
Engine fired up slightly reluctantly but started
Charge ok, oil pressure good, coolant stayed in system and not on the floor
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Re: 141800518 a good day
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2022, 03:49:28 PM »
Looks really smart! I like the colour!  :cheers
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Re: 141800518 a good day
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2022, 07:45:29 PM »
good to see another 1418 pop up! If you don't mind I may ask if you could photograph some things for me as mine is missing a few bits!

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Re: 141800518 a good day
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2022, 09:01:57 PM »
I like it but like mine the valance has been swapped.  I see it has a very early age related registration what is the story?

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Re: 141800518 a good day
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2022, 10:33:27 AM »
Nice car, not far from myself.  :cheers

We meet at the Phantom Coach in Coventry once a month, you should come along.
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Re: 141800518 a good day
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2022, 01:11:08 AM »
Quote from: Romahomepete on September 01, 2022, 09:01:57 PM
I like it but like mine the valance has been swapped.  I see it has a very early age related registration what is the story?

Peter

Random "early age related" ie apparently 1963 plates were issued for a while to any vehicles that had lost their original registration numbers. It would be just pure chance if the vehicle was actually a 1963 one! Nowadays such a plate would mean a 1963 vehicle though. Before that any vehicle being registered (or re-registered) would simply have gotten the next number available from the local licensing area. I once had a 1965 Mk1 Landcrab with a -K suffix plate on it. It was apparently imported from the Channel Islands in 1972. There are ex mil Landies around with similar anomalous year letter plates.
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Re: 141800518 a good day
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2022, 07:05:09 AM »
She was first registered in July 1958 so not the original registration and finding out the original I think may be a challenger. There was no front valance fitted when I bought her so I have put on the closest that I have been able to find.
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Re: 141800518 a good day
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2022, 07:37:11 AM »
My 58 too was missing the valance and I have the same as yours, in the last 8 years I have seen a couple of valances with the valve strip for sale but the prices were eye watering.

The first replacement A suffix age related registrations were issued , no random but it wasn't used for very long as an ordinary registration so there was a large pool or spare registrations.  Unfortunately DVLA will not change it for a 3+3 registration.

Yours is  about 50 before mine which went into dispatch on 2nd July 1958

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