whats the earliest chimaera?

[jim.2007]

Had me Chim for 4 years now and think mine was one of the first, mine has the door release in the little cubby hole underneath the stereo, stamp on the front chassis says made 15 dec 92, the origional reg was K12 AJP which was sold probably due to the Cerb, this is really baffeling me as DVLA can't help me with what was the first Chim? has anyone else got a really early one and has anyone got any ideas as to what the first Chim was?
I realy need any help as i don't know where to go from here! Bugging the hell out of me so please please help any info
Jim

[jim.2007]

Got the car all 4 wheel alighned today, top bloke, and had an interesting chat with him, apparently back in the day there were 15 main dealers and 15 Chims were sent to these for demo's in the showroom, and mine is one of them!!!! so if you have one with an odd centre console you are prob one of the 15! Please get in touch as i would love to know how many of these are on the road at present??? will now have to take the updated console out and refurb the origional, which, thank god i still have..!
Bye the way get the corsa b elec steering done, unbelievable difference, my mate who did mine and has a Chim will give you a good price if you want this conversion done in the north east area! NEROBO is the man to contact.

[RetroWheels]

If you pm me the last two digits of the chassis number i will try and dig out some info.
Darren.

[jim.2007]

will do mate, just finish me lamb buhna off!

[M@H]

jim.2007 said:

so if you have one with an odd centre console you are prob one of the 15!

odd in what way..? I had a K plate with the door release further up with the handbrake etc, but there were loads of them.

[jim.2007]

mine was first registerted to a main dealer! where was your door release

[M@H]

..the door release was within the soft section towards the front of the car along with the gear lever and handbrake rather than being separate and half way down the centre console, there are quite a few like that though.

[jim.2007]

the whole point of this post is to find out to what is relevant to my car, you are not relevant and you are unable to input any usefull info, so please don't reply to any further posts, get the facts right and don't post anything that will detract from that!

[Podie]

jim.2007 said:

the whole point of this post is to find out to what is relevant to my car, you are not relevant and you are unable to input any usefull info, so please don't reply to any further posts, get the facts right and don't post anything that will detract from that!

Charming.

[RetroWheels]

jim.2007 YHM - Also try Malcolm "potato muncher" on here, as he might have more info.

[Oggs]

Podie said:

jim.2007 said:

the whole point of this post is to find out to what is relevant to my car, you are not relevant and you are unable to input any usefull info, so please don't reply to any further posts, get the facts right and don't post anything that will detract from that!

Charming.

That's what I thought.

[dhf]

One of my TVR's was imported into Ireland in october 1992 by the original owner,strange my door openers aren't where yours are...

[M@H]

jim.2007 said:

the whole point of this post is to find out to what is relevant to my car, you are not relevant and you are unable to input any usefull info, so please don't reply to any further posts, get the facts right and don't post anything that will detract from that!

I suggest you read that back to yourself to see how rude it is, I was only answering your question

[robsco]

jim.2007 said:

the whole point of this post is to find out to what is relevant to my car, you are not relevant and you are unable to input any usefull info, so please don't reply to any further posts, get the facts right and don't post anything that will detract from that!

What a colossal tit.

[jim.2007]

yeah maybe a little harsh looking back i apologise, any help whatsoever is greatly appreciated

[Podie]

So (in terms of the door opener position) is yours like this?



... rather than like this?

Edited by Podie on Tuesday 3rd April 10:59

[SILICONEKID340HP]

jim.2007 said:

the whole point of this post is to find out to what is relevant to my car, you are not relevant and you are unable to input any usefull info, so please don't reply to any further posts, get the facts right and don't post anything that will detract from that!

Does it rearly matter ? you should of bought a griff

[dhf]

Customary on here when being offered help to reply to posts of help,strikes me you need to learn some serious manners as well as changing your attitude or maybe you consider the above "Not Relevant"

[LordGrover]

He's apologised.

jim.2007 said:

yeah maybe a little harsh looking back i apologise, any help whatsoever is greatly appreciated

[miniman]

Podie said:

So (in terms of the door opener position) is yours like this?



... rather than like this?

Edited by Podie on Tuesday 3rd April 10:59

So I always assumed that the door knob moved around the same time that the T5 gearbox was introduced, but perhaps not.