Re: Mini Petrol Powered Corvette 'Go-Kart' For Sale (7ft Long) On UK Ebay

Richard Polhill (richard.news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) gurgled happily,
sounding much like they were saying : 

>> You continue to miss my point - the V5 would not say it was a 1982 or
>> 1984 car, it would say it was a 1983 car.

> No it wouldn't. It would say date of first registration: dd/mm/1983.
> This does not imply a 1983 car, just that it was first registered.

Which is as close to the age of the car as the paperwork gets.

> The VIN or chassis number can be cross referenced with the 
> manufacturer to determine what 'model year' they built and when they 
> built it.

IF that manufacturer happens to use the concept of a Model Year. Which 
not all do.

> My point being that the 'model year' is wholly a manufacturer's
> classification so that they can match the right parts and
> configuration.

Right - and therefore irrelevant to the registration details, which is 
what I've been saying all along. 

(Apart from in the US, where the title DOES state the MY - even when 
it's irrelevant, because the manufacturer doesn't use it.)

>>> And once more to ram it home:-

>> THERE IS NO CONCEPT OF MODEL YEAR ON UK "TITLES" (or V5s as we call
>> 'em). 
>> 
>> DVLA don't give a flying **** what some 'merkin salesmuppet flogged
>> the damn car as twenty years ago.

> No there isn't and no they don't.

Thank you.

And the original challenge was to find a Corvette TITLE - which we call 
a V5 - that says it's a 1983. Simple. All Corvettes first registered in 
1983 will say they're 1983 cars. They won't say that it's an '82 or an 
'84 car. Because it isn't outside of some internal specification 
tracking designation.

> The point you appeared to be trying to make, and forgive me if I can't
> make complete sense of your deranged ramblings, is that because the UK
> log book does not record a manufacturer's model year as the US title
> does, then there is no such concept of model year in the UK.

The fact that no Corvette V5 says that GM call it an '83MY is irrelevant 
- because no V5 will say that any car is whatever MY - no '94 Chavalier 
V5 will call it a Vectra A or a Cavalier Mk3 - and just as no V5 for a 
Citroen or Peugeot will give the RP number, which is how PSA track 
model/part fitment changes (to the production day). The fact that 
amanufacturer refers to their production changes in a certain arbitrary 
way is irrelevant outside the US-centric concept of the Model Year.

I couldn't give a flying **** if GM called any 'vettes 1983 or 1845 or 
whatever. They're still overpowered ill-handling barges solely desirable 
to the chestwig brigade.