SHADOW has a brother!

[AlisonTR7]

So we were spotted at Coleford, our TR7 V8 Grinnall SHA 160W will definately be attending Billing this year and will be on the look out for the other 'Shadow' car. Perhaps we can get some pics of the cars together.[;)]

Alison

[gaz]

[:D][:D][:D]
there will be three with the mini me (pedal car)
SHA160W was for sale 12 months or so ago are you the new owner or did you decide not to sell (I sound like a stalker don't I lol)
welcome to the fold we all seem to find our way here at some point......

It rides again..... and again wehey!!!!!!!

[AlisonTR7]

Hiya,
Yes we are the new owners of SHA 160W, we've owned the car for 18 months and love it. We've given it a new blue mohair roof as the old tan roof needed replacing. We also had the wheels spruced up as they were looking a little sad, we had them done in silver rather than the gold they were before. Think the car looks much better.[:)]

Alison

[TR Tony]

Alison, were you on the New Forest run yesterday? There was a blue DHC with the reg SHA???W there, was it you or the other "Shadow"

Tony

<font size="1">1981 2L FHC Cavalry Blue
1980 3.5L V8 DHC Jaguar Regency Red - sadly sold!
TR8 FHC EFI Factory development car Inca Yellow</font id="size1">

[AlisonTR7]

Hi Tony,
Yes we were on the New Forest run yesterday, what a great day it was too. [:D]

Alison

[Henk]

And who's shadow is this? At Robsport i think.

[img][IMG]http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z26/TRHENK/workshop1.jpg[/img][/img]

SHA 165 W

Henk

1980 TR7 US Convertible
1978 Mini Clubman Estate

[gaz]

can someone please confirm UK reg. plates is it the first three letters that tell you the area it was registered, if so mine was from waddingham stringer dealership which I belive was Northampton, which would meen all three shadows were also possibly from there
and they must have had a run on cavalry blue that month[;)]

It rides again..... and again wehey!!!!!!!

[AlisonTR7]

I believe to locate a registratin plate area it was the 2nd and 3rd letters, in our case HA was originally from Dudley, West Midlands area. On the copy of the original vehicle reg document for our car it was first registered to BL Cars Longbridge, Birmingham. SHA 160W came out of the factory in Aaron Beige, it was resprayed to cavalry blue sometime during the late 1980's.

Alison

[TR Tony]

Quite right, the 2nd & 3rd letters show the area of first registration. Down in this part of the UK for example, *AA indicates Hampshire & *LJ is Dorset. I think the 1st letter is just allocated at random to make up the series.

So, anything registered *HA will have been first registered in the same area but not necessarily by the same dealer.

Tony

<font size="1">1981 2L FHC Cavalry Blue
1980 3.5L V8 DHC Jaguar Regency Red - sadly sold!
TR8 FHC EFI Factory development car Inca Yellow</font id="size1">

[nervousnewowner]

alison, i think the pic of your car was from me, were you the lady looking really bored in the passenger seat the one time i walked past? [:D]


the project at birth, watch it evolve...I hope...

[AlisonTR7]

If you are refering to Coleford event, then I was'nt bored, just feeling unwell cos I had the most awful migrains!!!!!! Felt better later, but enjoyed the day all the same[:D]

Alison

[dave.c]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">And who's shadow is this? At Robsport i think.


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This was mine til early last year, it now belongs to macmattom.
It broke down coming back from the Belgium festival.
I was going to fix it but got a V8 so no room for it.
ATB Dave

Its hard not to be big headed driving it

[stevie_a]

<font size="5"><font color="blue"><b>SHA 160W</b></font id="blue"></font id="size5">

<font color="teal"><b>This combination was issued from 1981

This plate would have been issued by Smethwick County Borough Council (currently Birmingham (Dudley)).</b></font id="teal">

[;)]

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<font size="4"><font color="green"><i>If it's not broke don't fix it.</i></font id="green"></font id="size4">

[gaz]

Ok looking at the service record it says on pg.2
in the vehicle id. section
hand written:
bl cars ltd
mcp nor@@@@@@@ "cant read the writing"
longbridge, b,ham


my mistake the dealer stamp who sold the car was,

Charles clark group fleet ltd
wolverhamptom road
wedges mills
cannock

and it had its first & second service at wadham stringer northamptom & the original owner also lived in northampton

the car was first purchased 29-05-81 so which is big brother[:)]

It rides again..... and again wehey!!!!!!!

[AlisonTR7]

Ours was first registered 8 May 1981,so we are big bro. hehe! all good fun looking into the past, great these cars have lasted so long.

Alison