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Post by cb250g5 on Nov 3, 2020 23:41:28 GMT 1
I put a covering letter in when I registered the Greek TDR, asking for them to send the Greek log book back, so I could keep all the documentation for the bike, and they did. Most of it was completely unreadable anyway, it's all Greek to me.
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Post by Gee on Nov 4, 2020 0:08:31 GMT 1
I put a covering letter in when I registered the Greek TDR, asking for them to send the Greek log book back, so I could keep all the documentation for the bike, and they did. Most of it was completely unreadable anyway, it's all Greek to me. 🙄😂
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Post by Gee on Nov 4, 2020 0:10:17 GMT 1
My 4L0 (registered August 1980) had engine/frame numbers 4L00031**, so that tallies. Really annoyed if the Hun got the 350 LC earlier than us... Is that a UK bike or hun? 😂😂
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Post by keith945 on Nov 4, 2020 16:21:18 GMT 1
My 4L0 (registered August 1980) had engine/frame numbers 4L00031**, so that tallies. Really annoyed if the Hun got the 350 LC earlier than us... Got my 350 14th August 1980 and number is 4LO 00038XX and I know someone who imported one from (think) Austria and his was in the high hundreds, so I do think other European countries got them first. Always wondered why mine wasa highish number and yet it was an early UK one! Hope this helps.
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Post by mangocrazy on Nov 4, 2020 17:33:39 GMT 1
My 4L0 (registered August 1980) had engine/frame numbers 4L00031**, so that tallies. Really annoyed if the Hun got the 350 LC earlier than us... Got my 350 14th August 1980 and number is 4LO 00038XX and I know someone who imported one from (think) Austria and his was in the high hundreds, so I do think other European countries got them first. Always wondered why mine wasa highish number and yet it was an early UK one! Hope this helps. Yes, it certainly looks as if the UK was at the end of the queue for delivery. I wonder if thtis was due to Mitsui simply being an importer rather than the UK arm of Yamaha. Were Yamaha Deutschland, Yamaha France or Yamaha Italia a 'thing' in 1980, or did Yamaha just work through importers?
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Post by Gee on Nov 4, 2020 17:58:05 GMT 1
Just looked at the paperwork and it's 16th July 1980, not June as I previously thought
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Post by mangocrazy on Nov 6, 2020 13:18:47 GMT 1
My 350LC was registered on 8th August 1980, so less than a month after your German import was. I imagine Yamaha were knocking them out as fast as they could...
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Post by Gee on Nov 6, 2020 20:42:22 GMT 1
My 350LC was registered on 8th August 1980, so less than a month after your German import was. I imagine Yamaha were knocking them out as fast as they could... W reg then 👌 I had an ex race LC in 87, put it back on the road. That was W. Turned out a guy I worked with 25 years later was half owner of it. Him and another guy went half's to go racing and it blew up first time out so my mate never actually had a go on the track 😂
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Post by mangocrazy on Nov 6, 2020 21:22:39 GMT 1
My 350LC was registered on 8th August 1980, so less than a month after your German import was. I imagine Yamaha were knocking them out as fast as they could... W reg then 👌 I had an ex race LC in 87, put it back on the road. That was W. Turned out a guy I worked with 25 years later was half owner of it. Him and another guy went half's to go racing and it blew up first time out so my mate never actually had a go on the track 😂 Yeah, W reg. The letters part of the Reg no. are NVT - which stood for Norton Villiers Triumph back then...
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Post by Gee on Nov 6, 2020 21:43:24 GMT 1
W reg then 👌 I had an ex race LC in 87, put it back on the road. That was W. Turned out a guy I worked with 25 years later was half owner of it. Him and another guy went half's to go racing and it blew up first time out so my mate never actually had a go on the track 😂 Yeah, W reg. The letters part of the Reg no. are NVT - which stood for Norton Villiers Triumph back then... 👍
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