68 MK1 S

[rnp68]

As it is a Croydon issued reg, I will get in touch with their archive dept and see if they have the original reg books. I will report back.

Ray

[WMU 211G]

I think WMU has hit the nail on the head. Dealers were left - or lumbered - with old stock, like Mk1's when the Mk2's came on stream. So lots of Mk1's were in stock. As told to me by Nick Cornish, a salesman at CG Browns in Thatcham, they'd be left with old stock and later, at the end of the Mk2 era even the dire, unsaleable colours of the era, such as the 'NHS' aqua were left in stock. An MGB in particular he recalled. If there wasn't a lot of profit they could ill afford to discount the price. (I don't believe that twaddle either..... They were just TOO tight fisted to discount the stock!)

I am semi chasing an early Mk2 998 in snowberry that should have been a G, that wasn't registered until almost a year later, in March or so, 1970 on an H. When Glacier was the standard. Who wanted a Mk2 Cooper, in an obsolete colour after production had ceased?

Similar situation at the Sam Robbins garage I mentioned in my earlier post, they were actually a Rover dealer and the same thing occurred after the Series 1 P6 was replaced by the Series 2 facelift version in late 1970. Our next door neighbour at the time was the receptionist there and she used to give me and my mum a lift into town in her musty old '65 Mini Traveller, she'd drop us off outside then park round the back, meanwhile I'd be ogling the shiny P5Bs and P6s behind the glass. There was a Series 1 Tobacco Leaf (baby poo brown!) P6 in there which hung around until it was put on the road at reduced price with K reg' plates. The MD's '72 P5B Coupe had a personal plate on around that time but was given an N suffix number when he took it off.

[rnp68]

Had a reply from Croyden archives their vehicle records were destroyed when DVLA took over.

Ray