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TDL 229J Isle of Wight J plate now earliest on record?...
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:28 pm
by minispeedstar
Has a chassis number of: 2465!! and pre release reg date of: 3-5-1971

Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:13 pm
by JIM73
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:19 pm
by JIM73
Just been to see him and looks like we can look after the car and ive been given first refusal on it !!! good news eh !!!

Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:31 pm
by ClaytonSpeed
One more joins the fold! You'll be needing drivers then for the 23rd mate!
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:49 pm
by ~Sam~
is she likely to be running by then??
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:13 pm
by JIM73
Yeah ! should be ok !!! she was running last year , well chuffed we've managed to save it !! uncle franks on the case now for the green mk1 coupe !!!

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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:21 pm
by ClaytonSpeed
You are forgetting I have an Island car...
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:22 pm
by JIM73
Best bring it back then

Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:22 pm
by ClaytonSpeed
One day mate... One Day...
j reg
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:47 pm
by Clan Chieftain
8) thats great news about the j reg. hope you can get it and get it back on the road. how many "j " regs are there now.........larry
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:20 pm
by JIM73
Need to find out really dont we !!!!

j reg.
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:35 pm
by Clan Chieftain
8) when you said earlier you were looking after the car..are you getting it or not. i know you said you are getting first refusal i hope you get it ok.it would be a shame if you got it back on the road and he didnt sell,or am i picking up your posting wrong...............larry
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:02 pm
by Clan Chieftain
8)must now get a photo of the "j" reg and the "w" reg together..one of the first and one of the last produced.
Re: TDL 229J Isle of Wight J plate now earliest on record?..
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:46 pm
by XER905L
minispeedstar wrote:Has a chassis number of: 2465!! and pre release reg date of: 3-5-1971

Wasnt the Marina launched in April 1971 with was it 10 or 20,000 examples ready for delivery??? Its great to see such a very early car has survived - somebody must have really loved it for many decades to survive in reasonable shape - perhaps somebody still alive on the island has a real story to share about this car being one of the first .
When I bought my TCs I was told by original owners or their families that 1 was a special color order (citron on a TC coupe) and that the other had been a Cambridge main dealer demo car for its first 10,000 miles
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:12 pm
by JIM73
It belonged to a woman who owned it for years and was serviced regularly by the local BL dealer !! strangely where she is now !!!
