How many LDH Griff's made

[gerjo]

saw another threat on no. of 4.3's so:

how many LHD Griff's have been produced?

how many LHD Griff 500's? (any SE's among them?)

I saw a total of 1.179 up till 1997 in Steve's bible but no split in RHD/LHD. Also, might be nice to have the full numbers up till end of production.

[bennno]

whats LDH is it Left Drive Hand?



Bennno

[shpub]

The LHD/RHD split is unknown but about 100 of the 4.x were LHD and I would guess about the same number of 500's were made. The Complete run I have estimated at around 1729 500's. The factory think it is around the 1675 mark. The new figures are in the new edition of the bible.

[gerjo]

o.k. this would mean that no more than 200-300 LHD 500's were made; this makes it quite a rare beast!
nice to know

[tvr4ever]

I think there were even less 4.3 Griffith's, making them the even rarer beast.

Fred

[pilot_ian]

bennno said:
whats LDH is it Left Drive Hand?



Bennno

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[icamm]

Well you can actually read Steve's comment it two ways. Either of which could be correct .

1. The same proportion of 500's where made LHD as proportion of 4.3's (so about 300-ish).

2. The same number of 500's were LHD as 4.3's (so 100-ish).

Is the factory's lack of exact figures down to poor book keeping or manual procedures making if difficult to get exact records? I would have thought that even the most basic computer and spreadsheet would be able to track the small numbers of orders we are talking about.

[gerjo]

tvr4ever said: I think there were even less 4.3 Griffith's, making them the even rarer beast.

Fred

yep, the 4.3 is rarer, especially LHD and even more so the BV's. I used to have one but wanted more power/better chassis.