Top Gear - £10k Supercars - Where are they now ?

[varsas]

yellowbentines said:

The dvla have Clarkson's car listed as being manufactured in 1975, the 'ss' was apparently not launched until 1976.

I thought it was an 'SS'? I don't know who I trust less to keep track of build dates, the Italians or the DVLA (actually; no...wait...it's the DVLA) Eurospares say it's a '76...

Edited by varsas on Tuesday 3rd August 09:44

[Alfa numeric]

doogz said:

sumlin said:

What puzzled me about that was "A11 RFT" - a 1983 (?) plate on a 308 GT4? I thought it was illegal to transfer a reg number to a car that was older than the reg indicated?

It's illegal to transfer a reg to a car that's newer than the reg indicates.

You're right though, that's something is odd, they stopped making the 308 GT4 in '80, and a A-plate makes it a '83 car. Possible it sat around for 3 years before being registered, but i would have said unlikely.

I think before the Q plate was intoroduced any imported car was given that year's plate. Maybe the Ferrari was imported from another RHD country.

[sumlin]

Arese said:

sumlin said:

What puzzled me about that was "A11 RFT" - a 1983 (?) plate on a 308 GT4? I thought it was illegal to transfer a reg number to a car that was older than the reg indicated?

Doesn't the 'A' plate cover 1983/1984?

Yep. And? The GT4 was made until 1980 in either case.

I guess it was an import, but it's a righty so seems unlikely. Odd. I know Hammond bought it and used it and the TV show where it gets crashed into apparently wasn't staged. There was a thread on the Ferrarichat forum (amongst the pictures of fat Americans in shorts posing with Hooters waitresses) where someone said they'd seen the GT4 for sale at a garage...

[mcford]

Swarley said:

slipstream 1985 said:

are they not old enough not to need tax?

They still need to be taxed but its free. Bizarre I know but you can even be fined if you don't have your free tax?

Only cars constructed before January 1st 1973 are eligible for Historic (free) class road tax. All the age identifiers on the registration numbers of those cars are later than this.

Edited by mcford on Wednesday 4th August 06:44

[Ceylon]

doogz said:

sumlin said:

What puzzled me about that was "A11 RFT" - a 1983 (?) plate on a 308 GT4? I thought it was illegal to transfer a reg number to a car that was older than the reg indicated?

It's illegal to transfer a reg to a car that's newer than the reg indicates.

You're right though, that's something is odd, they stopped making the 308 GT4 in '80, and a A-plate makes it a '83 car. Possible it sat around for 3 years before being registered, but i would have said unlikely.

"It's illegal to transfer a reg to a car that's newer than the reg indicates."

Errrr you have that the wrong way round; it is illegal to transfer a reg to a car that is older than the reg indicates. ie you are not allowed to make a car look younger than it really is.

[thebigmacmoomin]

varsas said:

yellowbentines said:

The dvla have Clarkson's car listed as being manufactured in 1975, the 'ss' was apparently not launched until 1976.

I thought it was an 'SS'? I don't know who I trust less to keep track of build dates, the Italians or the DVLA (actually; no...wait...it's the DVLA) Eurospares say it's a '76...

Edited by varsas on Tuesday 3rd August 09:44

It wasnt an SS, it just had a £40 SS badge. Clarkson found the recepte for it when they did the rolling road.

[Caruso]

I've seen Hammonds GT4 up for sale recently. The others were presumably scrapped?

[Twincam16]

Hammond's GT4 was restored by the people I bought my Alfa from. According to the chief mechanic, it was more of a light refurbishment - there wasn't much wrong with it and it 'broke down' because it ran out of fuel, not due to the electrical failure Hammond claimed.

[Bernard80]

Someone posted here I think the Aygos they used in the football



Not as interesting as the supercars but thought I would share

[BazT]

The aygo's were distributed around the country to different Toyota dealer's after filming as a marketing thing, apparently anyway, as my local dealer had one.

[FraserLFA]

The Aygo's are cheap to fix if needed, so i hope they haven't just been left to rot...

[BazT]

They were probably never PDI'd/registered etc.

[dtmpower]

BazT said:

They were probably never PDI'd/registered etc.

Probably never had VAT paid on them either -

[Remagel2507]

I do belive that James Lambo was bought by an Italian car specialist who did all the work to it and then sold it on

EDIT: http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/extras/production_not...

BTW I recommend reading the other notes too there pretty interesting

Edited by Remagel2507 on Monday 16th August 21:19

[Welshbeef]

I have an issue with clarksons car. It had just had a full professional engine rebuild costing £10k now surely that comes with some warranty?? The owner sells it for £3 k less than the cost of the engine rebuild which is strange mind you anyone who does modify their cars they expect none of the cash back in which case this car must have been a heap and the previous owner top attached to realise he should have sold as seen or scrapped or given away to another owner to keep another car going