Last off the line ??

Why`s that? Is it not correct in that the vehicle is in Guernsey, if I bought it and brought it to the UK, I would be liable to pay VAT? ???
Anyhoo, the ad line is more glaringly wrong/misleading.
"The last of the 3500 production line to survive" This implies it is the last surviving V8 P6, and not "The last 3500 OFF the production line" No??? ???
 
kiltyarse said:
Why`s that? Is it not correct in that the vehicle is in Guernsey, if I bought it and brought it to the UK, I would be liable to pay VAT? ???
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You could be right then, that'll teach me not to read it properly........................ In fact you could pay duty on the purchase price, then VAT on the price AND the duty. Although aren't the Channel Islands in the EU? If so you shouldn't pay duty, and cars aren't subject to VAT.

I wish I'd never started this.......................................(Where's that "Delete" button. :) )



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At that price I would expect it to have just come off the production line :laugh:
If it were a time warp delivery miles only,been in dry storage and AS NEW!! Then it would possibly get such a price!!
Its only worth £2-£3K tops I reckon! ???
 
Well, the highest 451 chassis number on my database cames from a Pendelican White V8 of 1977, bronze cloth seats, approx. 64.000 miles (in 2005).......

Rudiger
 
A very concise summary of the situation in that Wikipedia article by Mark Gray.

Nick Dunning will be able to be definitive here, but my understanding was that at the end of production chassis numbers were not necessarily in build order - hence the importance of consulting actual build dates. At this stage SD1 production was well underway in the new facility and the P6 building and line was effectively abandoned; to subsequently be converted for Land Rover use? When the factory had spare labour a gang would go over to the P6 line and use old stock to build up a few cars - so production was very hit and miss. Didn't the production of VVC coincide with a strike? So those at work not on strike were given a little fill in job?

Note the last V8 was not the end of P6 production. 4 Cyl cars continued to be made for a short period. Weren't these export 2000's (not 2200's!!!) for Italy where the tax regime heavily penalised over 2000cc cars? The SD1 at that time would have been V8 only? Or at best 2300/2600, the SD1 2000 not yet having been launched.

Chris
 
Meanwhile I´ve idetified this white P6 V8. She´s on my database and indeed has the highest 451 chassis number I know of a still existing P6.

Rudiger
 
Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man are not Member States of the European Union and are not part of the UK Member State. I understand that taxes are levied on cars entering the EU from these locations if they have not previously been registered in an EU member state, except where transfer of residence is involved.

John Larkin
 
DaveHerns said:
Think this is one for Nick Dunning to answer .I believe Mark Gray had the last V8 made and it's avocado ?
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Hi Folks
The advert is wrong - this is not the last car off the line - it IS, however, probably the 'newest' SURVIVING 3500 automatic.

I researched it some years ago for Jerry Bligh as he knows the car. It's, in date of production, about the 13th auto from last auto off the line in early March 1977 - I think I have the data in a diary somewhere if someone wants it.

It'd have to be exceptional to get that money as it certainly isn't that interesting historically - certainly not a last of line.

VVC700S, the former Syon Park and Gaydon 3500S - in Avecado was the 'official' last of line, built 22nd March 1977. However they also finished one last Richlieu Red 2200TC that day (a Saturday, in the middle of a toolmakers dispute), which also still exists.

Cheers
Nick
 
chrisyork said:
A very concise summary of the situation in that Wikipedia article by Mark Gray.

Nick Dunning will be able to be definitive here, but my understanding was that at the end of production chassis numbers were not necessarily in build order - hence the importance of consulting actual build dates. At this stage SD1 production was well underway in the new facility and the P6 building and line was effectively abandoned; to subsequently be converted for Land Rover use? When the factory had spare labour a gang would go over to the P6 line and use old stock to build up a few cars - so production was very hit and miss. Didn't the production of VVC coincide with a strike? So those at work not on strike were given a little fill in job?

Note the last V8 was not the end of P6 production. 4 Cyl cars continued to be made for a short period. Weren't these export 2000's (not 2200's!!!) for Italy where the tax regime heavily penalised over 2000cc cars? The SD1 at that time would have been V8 only? Or at best 2300/2600, the SD1 2000 not yet having been launched.

Chris
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Chris
You are right - apart from the certain last day of P6 production was 22nd March 1977 - VVC and the Richlieu Red 2200TC I've written about before were finished that day. That was it. There were no 4 cylinder cars built after that date.

Rover did built 2000TC's (2000TC's, not 2200's) in penny numbers for the Italian market into 1977. The highly unusual '868' series. I've love one.

Cheers
Nick
 
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