1st Gens - 86 No.Cars by Area --Word Doc This Time

[David Nock (RIP)]

Hi everyone. An update on 1st Generations by locations. I\'ve been snooping in a few more places and have now got the list of 1st Gens up to 86.
This comprises 60xSeries 3, 18xS2 and 8xS1 (SA\'s).
I have shifted the format to Word Doc from Excel and as before, I\'m fairly sure there\'s only enough info to enable owners to say \'That\'s mine\', without giving any sensitive detail in the document. I have got 85% of Registrations now but I\'m very happy to receive any little bits and pieces of information, even if I\'ve got it already. - I\'m obviously going for 100% of all the information on all surviving 1st Gens in the UK. Includes Eire.
Come on guys, give an oldster something to compute on these winter mornings now that work is just a memory.:Snoring

[Paul-Tll]

LOL Tim prob has a dozen down at RX-Motors unless hes had a clearout!:Giggle
P.

[David Nock (RIP)]

Good thinking - never been there but I know he keeps a few \'in reserve\'. I\'ll e mail him at RX motors and see if he\'ll tell me what he\'s got that might make it back to the road.

[shaunwil]

Very interesting link to think just how few there are !!!!

Shaun

[J_T]

Curious at your sig there David, how did you manage to get a 1985 car on a K reg?

Edit: Oh, and that word doc doesn\'t look right in OpenOffice :/

[David Nock (RIP)]

Curious at your sig there David, how did you manage to get a 1985 car on a K reg?

Edit: Oh, and that word doc doesn\'t look right in OpenOffice :/

Ah.... the K Plate story.
We (well my wife really, with me as the spanner monkey) have run 1st Gens since 1985. We had a Series 2 (Y Reg) and a Series 3 (B Reg). Then in 1993 we heard of a mystery car supposedly under a sheet in a London Garage. It turned out to be the one we have now and it\'s a stock street car, FB Series 3, Silver, Chassis Nos from the last day\'s UK car production in Hiroshima in 1985.
B&H Mazda in Barnet had put it under the sheet covered in wax as it came off the ship in spring 1986. They finally registered it in Dec 1992 on a K plate, for various reasons, particularly they didn\'t like the look of the catalytic converter law coming in. So once registered they looked to sell it and we bought it 6 months later in June 1993, for a reasonable price I might add. That first trip up the A1 bringing it back from Barnet to South Yorks on a beautiful summer evening was absolutely fabulous - a moment like that doesn\'t come often in life. So. it\'s got 51,000 miles on it now and goes like a dream.

Sorry about the Word Doc. I\'ve tried previously uploading in Excel but the compression programme made it indecipherable for some people - however some viewers could download and rename to ordinary Excel.
Can you not download to desktop and view in ordinary Word? I know it\'s showing underlines for all my abbreviations but please can you advise what else it shows up?

[J_T]

Doc seems to work fine in WordPad, OpenOffice wanted to display protrait which then missed all the notes.

Not many left and so few series 1s!

[Archbish]

I take it mine is 36?

It now lives in Hampshire, is currently grey primer, but will be \'Stormy Blue Mica\' (from the MX-5).  Bought for £70 as a roling shell.

There is also a black S1 in Hampshire

[David Nock (RIP)]

I take it mine is 36?

It now lives in Hampshire, is currently grey primer, but will be \'Stormy Blue Mica\' (from the MX-5).  Bought for £70 as a roling shell.

There is also a black S1 in Hampshire

Indeed it is Bish. Colour is duly amended so don\'t go spraying it Custom Yellow! The Nos. are for convenience counting so yours may not always be 36. That way, if another FB gets added in another area above South England, all the Nos push down 1 digit.
Thanks for the Hampshire one. I\'ve also got an unknown location Black S1 which Rotaryart are selling. Could that be same car? Anyway I\'ve added the new one in as well till I can find out.

[David Nock (RIP)]

Doc seems to work fine in WordPad, OpenOffice wanted to display protrait which then missed all the notes.

Not many left and so few series 1s!

Yes, .....I think I understand now, The Excel Spreadsheet was formatted for 2 pages across.

Isn\'t it interesting how the numbers tumble S3....S2....S1. That could be a function of numbers sold, as well as natural wastage of course, but I don\'t really know why. Also I would think just about every S1 owner will be in 1 club or another, whereas maybe a few S2, S3\'s are still outside of any club??

[Archbish]

No worries - I don\'t think they\'d be the same car...

[rei99]

There\'s also mine that was in Essex

[David Nock (RIP)]

There\'s also mine that was in Essex

*** 585V. Got it thanks on my main record sheet. Shown as taken to Italy but somehow missed off this post. Now corrected, Thanks again.

[jon newman]

I HAVE AN EX cALIFORNIA 79 IN YELLOW

BYN951T SOON TO BE PREPPED FOR FIA HISTORIC RACING. A MINT SHELL, WAS OWNED BY ELDERLY GENT FROM 93- ABOUT 2004

[Moonwrap]

Is 44/58.5 mine? Silver with partial TWR bodykit on MRC calendar? If so it\'s kept in Central England