All,
Another thing to remember is that in Europe the model year of a car was
determined by the serial number and not always by the year of manufacture.
Also, the year of a car is determined if it was made before or after
January 1. (We had a 1950 MGTD, but the title called it a 1951 because it
was made in November!) The Europen manufacturers often did not change the
cars or serial nombers from one year to the next. Techinical changes were
an on going thing, but styling changed little. (Kinda like Henry Ford.) A
good example of this is the VW. Around 1966, VW began to use September as
the new model year and quit using the sequencial serial numbers they used
from year one.
Maybe the new historian is having trouble remembering that American cars
used September as a new model year in the same years they did not. That
would make an option on the 1958 year look like it was a 1957 to them. They
do need to get on der schtick and keepen de facts der straighten.
Larry Stanley
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