F40 on a '51 plate...

[Rude-boy]

A little confused here as yesterday i saw an F40 on a UK '53 plate on the way back from LM.

Now I am willing to allow a little brain fade for sleep deprivation but can anyone explain how this could be so?

FWIW i was not able to get close enough to it to see if it was a real one but it looked and sounded the part from 3 peage booths away...

[Rude-boy]

Mafioso said:

What I really wanna know is whether it was a 51 or 53 plate!?

I'm 99% that it was a '51.

a 'late' registration was my best guess as well, possibly the result of a collector's car being sold X years later to a person who wanted to use it for more than just looking at. Lovely to see and hear, just a shame that we weren't swift enough to tag along in the motorhome!

Can't have been an import, unless it was an unregistered one, as they still go from the year of first registration wherever it came from. My old IoM A6 was given a W plate when I brought it into the UK in '05ish.

[Rude-boy]

If I had to stick my neck out I would say that that was the same car I saw yesterday.

Many thanks!

[Rude-boy]

Mr Gearchange said:

Where did you see it?

End of the second toll road section back from Le Mans just outside Calais iirc, about 1ish CET which would be about right for you seeing it in MK at about 5pm BST if it was headed for home up that way.