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1970 Citroën DS 20 
Ep. 4.?Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2008-01-30 21:28 |
![[Image: ajpeopleplaceds1br7.8966.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is171/ajpeopleplaceds1br7.8966.jpg) From one of the "People Place" sketches, visiting a motorway service station. |
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◊ 2008-01-30 21:29 |
Make CITROEN Year of manufacture 1970 Engine size(CC) 2000 |
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◊ 2008-01-30 21:30 |
DS 20 then? Or was that number a trap?  Edit : could also be ID 20 or DSuper actually... (if 1970, the latter one) -- Last edit: 2008-01-30 21:32:02 |
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◊ 2008-01-30 21:49 |
Engine size closest to 2000 cc was 1985 cc, on the DS 20 indeed. The interior door handle (visible in the thumbnail) seems to be chromed, which would indicate a DS model, not a DSpécial or DSuper. The colour is Beige Albatros (AC 087), available since September 1970 for the model years 1971-1973. So I'd go for 1971 IDS 20. |
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◊ 2008-01-30 21:54 |
Shouldn't we just enter the year as 1970 anyway? When I get plate info from the DVLA, I always list the actual year the car was made in. |
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◊ 2008-01-30 22:06 |
The beige used for the 1970 m.y was almost yellow (cf http://www.nuancierds.fr/danchorama.htm ). It will always be a problem what choice to make, actual year or model year... |
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◊ 2008-01-30 22:10 |
But I think model year should really be used when the actual year is not known. -- Last edit: 2008-01-30 22:12:59 |
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◊ 2008-01-30 22:43 |
We always use model-year when there is enough info. If color indicates 1971 and it is built in 1970, it may simply indicate that it is one of the first half of 1971 model-year... |
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◊ 2008-01-30 22:46 |
OK.... Thing is I've stopped using the actual DVLA site as much, I prefer to use the RAC site most of the time for looking up UK plates, and that only gives you the year of registration, whereas DVLA can you the exact date, so many cars that been HPi or RAC checked could technically be the following year, if we're only going by model year instead of actual year. |
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◊ 2008-01-30 22:46 |
Anyway for this one the first registration is 1999, so it does not help -- Last edit: 2008-01-30 22:47:02 |
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◊ 2008-01-30 22:53 |
I thought that plate didn't look like it was really from the 70s. How do you register a 70s car in 1999 and managed to get it an old-style registration? |
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◊ 2008-01-30 22:56 |
From what I know, when you register an old car in the UK you get a plate of the year of the car, not a place of the current year. I guess that the car was imported from another country? Or just re-registered as something was lost? -- Last edit: 2008-01-30 22:56:23 |
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◊ 2008-01-30 23:04 |
What I wonder is how they decided the number bit. Do they select an unused number from the region (the HGU bit refers to the region where the car is registered). With some imported cars (usually when the year of manufacture is unclear), they used to give them a "Q-reg", which refers to no particular year (though they've probably done away with this now). -- Last edit: 2008-01-30 23:04:53 |
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◊ 2008-01-31 21:21 |
If it's been off the road, but you have evidence (for example the old logbook) of the original registration, the DVLA will I think re-issue the number - which I suggest may have happened in 1999. DVLA and RAC records would give this as the date of first registration. It's still possible to buy plates in silver-on-black where the vehicle dates from before 1973. -- Last edit: 2008-01-31 21:22:39 |
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