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[Phil@sievers.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <2EDE01E1@smtpgate.ball.com> Dave Lawson writes:
> 
> Phil,
> >> Are you sure it is an '88? The VIN shows that it is an '86.
> >>
> >> >Re: WAUZZZ85ZGA900637 (MB001421)
> >>               ^         I thought that the model
> >>                         year was coded like follows :
> >>               |          C=82              G=86
> >>                -------   D=83              H=87
> >>                          E=84              J=88
> >>                          F=85              etc.

Fascinating.  My 80CD (4000CD) has WAUZZZ81CA155405.  I KNOW this is an '82
model built in December 1981 and first registered in January 1982.   

So the 'G' in my "1988" ur-quattro means 1986, not 1988.  This explains a 
curious endorsement in the vehicle's registration documents - "Declared new at 
first registration in Great Britain by manufacturer."  I've never seen this 
note on vehicle registration documents before - do any other UK quattro owners 
have it?
 
Phil Payne
Sievers Consulting UK
Vice Chair, UK Computer Measurement Group
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