Re: Funky is as funky does (was: RE: Couple of questions about 1974 spider)

[Ian Lomax <sfalfisto@domain.elided>]

hmmm, my 71 spider also sat on a lot somewhere for
years.  it wasn't sold until well into 1973.  i guess
we're making up for it now, as it currently has 205k
miles on it with no intention of slowing down! :-)

ciao,
ian lomax
foggy san francisco, ca

--- John Hertzman <johnhertzman@domain.elided> wrote:
> In 8-0331 Scott writes "While I'm thinking of it --
> is there anyone else on
> the Digest who knows those two dates (month/year of
> manufacture per the in-car
> plate, versus first date of registration) for
> comparison?  I have no real
> sense of how long the pipeline was from
> Pininfarina's factory to the showroom
> floor.  It *seems* funky to me that there would be
> almost two years between
> those events, but I have nothing to back that up. 
> Even a few samples would be
> interesting."
> 
> 
> 
> Can't say about Spiders, but a very mundane
> data-point is my wife's 164, which
> was two days short of twenty-six months between the
> assembly line at Arese and
> the date of first registration. (The date is more
> precise than the doorpost
> date as I have the "Ordine di Consegna"). Can't give
> a date for showroom
> floor, as the car was never on a showroom floor,
> just on storage lots in
> Newark and Raleigh. Never properly cleaned-up, which
> is probably why the
> "Ordine" was still in the car.
> 
> 
> 
> Nice car, for a wrong-ender, once we cleaned the
> cosmoline and removed the
> prominent nail from the right-front tire.
> Pre-delivery preparation? Oh, yeah.
> 
> 
> 
> John H.
> 
> Raleigh, N.C.
> 
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