1958 Simca Ariane

1958 Simca Ariane in Petit discours de la méthode, Short Movie, 1963

Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin:

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Author	Message
sixcyl ◊ 2017-05-26 18:48	xxxx HA 75 ==> 1958
Gamer ◊ 2017-05-26 20:25	Sixcyl have you got some tables for French license plate (pre-2009) dating?
dsl ◊ 2017-05-26 20:58	Try http://plaque.free.fr/f_1950s.html (but F plates can be newer than car for various reasons - not as much of a lottery as HK system, but enough wobblies to tread carefully).
sixcyl ◊ 2017-05-26 22:56	Gamer wrote Sixcyl have you got some tables for French license plate (pre-2009) dating? dsl has already answered Indeed,in this case, we can assume the car was registered in 1958 as newly bought vehicle due to the fact the first YM of Ariane is 1957. dsl wrote Try http://plaque.free.fr/f_1950s.html (but F plates can be newer than car for various reasons - not as much of a lottery as HK system, but enough wobblies to tread carefully).
Gamer ◊ 2017-05-26 23:31	It's about as wobbly as the Spanish system, and that's pretty stable.
dsl ◊ 2017-05-27 00:12	There's several comments from DidierF (I think) a year or two back about being cautious and the potential for wobblies. I've noticed a lot of weird dates recently for "older" F plates in recent films where plate dates are totally wrong for the car (eg "1980s" Renault 16s etc). But that said, old F plates in old films seem mostly solid when I've tried them. So tread carefully and we should be fine.