390SE registration doc...Confused??

[hillclimbmanic]

I have read countless times on here, that 390's were registered as 3.5...My logbook states 3905cc with the NCK engine number...Am I confused?

Paul

[ElvisWedgely]

I used to own a 450SE that was registered as a 3.5cc. I had to take the car to a TVR main agent to have it verified as a 450 and then wrote to DVLA and had it changed to the correct cc once a covering letter was supplied by the TVR agent. It seems that most V8 wedges were registered as a 3.5 irrelevant of what they were from new. It's only after the owners would write in and have them changed. Some owners it seems never bothered.

Tony. TCB.

[hillclimbmanic]

Ahhh...that explains it!! Thanks for the swift reply

Paul

[Englishman]

Yes, IIRC, my old 350, 390 and 450 were all originally registered with 3500cc engines. I got one changed but can't remember which!

Edited by Englishman on Wednesday 17th October 18:48

[maston]

Yep, my 390 has the nck engine number on the log book but is down as a 3.5 !!!

[MrPicky]

Same with mine, the car that was sold was a 350i but with a 390SE option pack.

[grahamw48]

Both of my (S2) 390SEs had the correct model name and NCK engine size on the Registration doc.
Maybe they had been corrected from the originals.

[JMF894]

Englishman said:

Yes, IIRC, my old 350, 390 and 450 were all originally registered with 3500cc engines. I got one changed but can't remember which!

Edited by Englishman on Wednesday 17th October 18:48

Well it wasn't the 450 David

That still states 3.5

Jimbo

[Adrian@]

Surely this all to due to TVR not wanting to pay for different classifications for all the versions of the car.
Adrian@

[MrPicky]

You don't mean penny pinching do you Adrian, surely the factory never did that ;-).

[Adrian@]

No never penny pinching LOL...just the barest minimum to cover the legal side of any a facet of any part of the business, the old TVR business evolved/bumbled along using/being allowed to use historic precedents to get to the then current legal build points.
Adrian@