French, I'd say.

If your car was REGISTERED in June '87 I'd guess at french too, if portugeuse started being imported sometime mid 87. They would still probably be using up french stock at the main dealers.

Bear in mind that my car was registered on the 31st March 1989, but was built on the 28th April 1988, your car could be as much as a year older than it's registered new date.


Edit:- Ah, just posted this reply and then read back a few replies, and noticed you had posted the RP/ORGA date...D'oh! Well, it can apply to others reading this thread

mine is an e reg, will get the number thingy in a minute to find registration date - or if i looked on the v5??

and russell

forgot to mention

its actually 200 (100 plus 50 for each door post which needs doing which is both!!)

thanks anyway

The V5 will tell you the registration date - as will checking on www.vehiclelicence.gov.uk

The number on the bulkhead will tell you the build date. They may very well be months apart.

I once had two CX Athenas at the same time. They were within 120 chassis numbers of each other, built a couple of days apart - yet registered nearly a year apart. One was a "special order" colour, and registered within two or three weeks of build. The other must've been a stock order, and sat around for ages.

Date of First Registration 18 05 1988

build date looked on bulkhead many 4 digit numbers is it on the plaque thing or painted on bulkhead cos there is one painted on the bulkhead and i put it in and it came up as 1976 which i thought was a bit too different!

What have you got?

There's probably a paint code (letters), the year (AM87 or AM88) and a four-digit number.

got it

at last!

my production date is 9 March 1988

and it was regested 2 months after this!

Get yerself a MIG welder, read up about how to do it and practice on some scrap steel until you're reasonably good at it. It would be misleading to say welding is easy, but anyone who's reasonably handy can do it to a good enough standard, at least on the non shiny bits . And at £200 a session, your welding kit will soon pay for itself.

my uncle said he has one that he can give me....

he said he would teach me properly!

(although i can kind of weld anyway)