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Im thinking spare parts, shame as it's a single cab.

Think its on its second showing ....

https://club8090.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28477

That's the one.
Drove by it a few weeks ago.

PC52 wrote:That's the one.
Drove by it a few weeks ago.

you cant be to far away from me then, that van is 8 miles away from me.
It is in need of a lot of hard work, 160,000 on the clock, no prop fitted, cylinder head gone, hole in the cargo deck and no MOT, thats without looking for rot.

8 miles, I think you are a stones throw from me, are you syncro or 2wd

tdi Syncro, needs an MOT though, hopefully get it in this friday.

its overpriced scrap ,cj.

Looks like he might break it

Hmm... the reg is G62 RKK. It's almost the same as mine: G70 RKK. What are the chances it's originally from the same area? I don't know if reg numbers work like that or if it's just chance?

Same area, definately; same dealer at the same time, very likely due to closeness I'd say but you cant usally rely on that if theres more than 50 numbers in it. These vans didn't have many dealers though so there was probubly only 1 or 2 dealers in a given region.

The last 2 of the 3 letters is the region the reg was issued to. Genrally a dealer will get 10 or 20 consecutive plates in bulk and issue them as they sell them (not neseserally in order though), when they run out they get another small series but that could have a completely different set of letters on the end!

Seems like a VW dealer had something like G60-G70RKK but some of them could be golfs LT's or whatever, maybe even MAN trucks if the dealer did them (mine did). G100+ might have gone to a ford dealer the other side of the KK region.

As I have an old Glasses guide of reg numbers (A-K reg), I can tragicly reveal G RKK was issued from 16-oct 89 - 7 jun 90 by Maidstone aparently. As its a low number it'll be towards the start of that era. They also issued RKK plates on A and K reg. Genrally every area has afew region codes they can use (maidstone for example has ones like KJ to KR among others) but they don't issue each one every year and the letter in front changes seemingly randomly aswell. They also issue afew combinations along side eachother.

In short the old style system tells you alot but you need a book to get most the info out of it as the patterns aren't logical (many don't realise there is any more info than the age year in them). The resion is the system is based on how popular they thought cars would be in 1904 (big towns/countys got their own single letter) and it got altered over the years as things ran out (double letters came in with more regions, over time regions changed size and letter alocations got moved around with demand). The current system is completely new so its still logical for our time and makes sence again as its designed for current and expected vehilce popularity, but its completely different useing different codes.