merkurdriver wrote:Boostfiend - like JB says the driver's side strut towe in yellow ink yours will have a 2 (since you said 2/88 on the door) and the following # will be the day.
Specktor - your 88's have a 9/88 tag on the door??? 9/88 build would certainly be an 89 model I would think
Also, the difference of 2,904 cars between the 2 sources quoting the production #'s is a bit crazy.
9/88.... September.
Most of the civilised democracies in the world gets at least 4 weeks of garanteed vacation after the first year on the job thanks to the strong unions and the high per centage of workers who are unionized.
Most of the civilised democracies have decided that JULY is vacation month.
In large factories that is invariably when repairs and refit and re jigs take place, those staying on getting big fat bonuses.
I have been in those refit crews when a I was a lather operator way back when.
As such, anything 1 August is usually going to be the next model, even if it might get titled or registered as something else depending on how fare and how fast it is transported and sold.
In July 1979, I stopped by the Husqvarna factory and picked up a new 1980 model sometime around the 15th or 16th.
As for the disagreement as to numbers, I would thing the people who actually made the things might have a better idea of what they made.
They are
GERMANS after all, not English.
(What ever you do,
don't mention the WAR!!)
I have 2/88 on mine, but wanted to know which day it was built. Then I'd know when to get the cake, and plan the party.... you understand.
