Also, from your list of MBz you own,
can you give me some evidences to differentiate a '75 vs a '76 240D. I
have one titled as a '76, although for some reasons, I believe it to
be a
'75. Thanks.
Frankenheap is in the same boat. The State thinks it is a '71, but I
have good reason to believe that '72 is more appropriate, given that
I found lots of '72 date codes on electrical items in it.
I don't think that I'd want to try to convince the State that
they had the wrong number! What's in it for them to change,
anyway?
DBAG is not like some other manufacturers that have discontinuities
in their design and production for each year, saving up most engineering
changes for the next model. DBAG just made continuous improvements as
they thought of them, phasing them in at any old time. The model year
designation (a US invention) is just another thing they stamp on
arbitrarily to suit their production method. After all, even for
a Chevy the 'year' is just a 'designed for sale as the year of' number,
and is something like six months out of phase with the calendar now.
DBAG's VIN will tell you everything you need to order parts appropriate
for the car and probably the date of final assembly too, if you care
about that. How that relates to the US's approximately August-to-August
'car year' is up to you. Your State obviously took an assembled in
'75 car and called it a '76. My '97 pickup was originally sold in
'96, sounds like the same thing.
-- Jim
