first car off the production line
I am going to add further confusion to earlier threads regarding the first car off the production line.
VIN numbers were allocated in the body shop and the early days were no different to those when we were making 80 per day, in that one VIN number did not follow consecutively the car before off the production line.
One thing is for sure - the first two cars completed were airfreighted to the US on the 20th January the day before the cameras showed John driving a car off the production line on 21st January 1981. The car that was intended for John and the press that day, was badly damaged following an accident on the test track. So John had car number four ( whatever the VIN was).
I hope I have not confused you all too much.
What is the reasoning that the car in the photo is VIN 500 given the comment I made earlier regarding the VIN plate and the part number shown?
Nick