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The Flying Dutchman · Post by **The Flying Dutchman** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:10 pm

First the '97 820Si

Second the '96 220 Coupe

And last but not least the '73 P5B (here still with the UK plates)

Post by **Richard C** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:11 pm

Lovely P5 you have there Job.

The Flying Dutchman · Post by **The Flying Dutchman** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:15 pm

It will be after some "minor" work.

BRG · Post by **BRG** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:05 pm

Lovely cars, all of them, Job.

Your P5 was registered in Nottingham. (I'm sure you knew that anyway!)

Welcome along.

The Flying Dutchman · Post by **The Flying Dutchman** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 8:42 pm

I know some of the history, but Nottingham isn't in it. Can you tell me more?

Mike V · Post by **Mike V** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:47 pm

Each car is lovely, especially the 820. Look after it and it will serve you well!

BRG · Post by **BRG** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:52 pm

The Flying Dutchman wrote:I know some of the history, but Nottingham isn't in it. Can you tell me more?

Not really mate. When I say Nottingham, I should say Nottinghamshire (the county, the region, district of Nottingham).

UK cars are identified by the last two letters of the prefix (UVO). 'VO' was used to identify cars registered in Nottinghamshire, up to October 1974, and cars registered in Nottingham (city) after Oct. 1974.

The end letter of your registration, 'L' means registration was between August 1st 1972 and July 31st 1973. The number before the 'L', 897 is quite a high number, so your car is most likely either a very late 1972 or very early 1973 registered one.

The Flying Dutchman · Post by **The Flying Dutchman** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 3:16 pm

It's from May '73 which makes it one of the last 200 made. First owner was the commodore of the RAF and after a few months it moved to Poole/Dorset to some member of the Royal Family or was it the Royle Family?

After that the history is lost apart from that I'm the 11th owner and the car staying in Poole till I bought it.
Other nice fact is that it was one of around 70 factory two tone cars which was standard only on the coupes.

Freewheel · Post by **Freewheel** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:59 am

Great car the P5: the SD1 of a couple or so years later wasn't in the same league.

Paintwise you could have whatever you wanted...

Remember royalty drove the saloon...

The Flying Dutchman · Post by **The Flying Dutchman** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:53 am

Freewheel wrote:
Paintwise you could have whatever you wanted...

Only for a price... The saloon was delivered in duotone for an extra amount of money and the coupe in one tone also for some extra.

Freewheel wrote:Remember royalty drove the saloon...

I know. Mine is a saloon.

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