TR4/4A Tr4a irs, name plate question

[Rrbbeerrttoo]

Does anyone recognize this name plate?

It measures 3-1/2 in. x 1 in. and reads:
Triumph
STC-66

It may have stuck in my pocket from a junk yard visit years ago and has sat with old parts since 1977-79.

Robert
1966 TR4a IRS

 

[Andrew Mace]

Those plates were typically installed by some dealers and/or regional distributors, basically to identify cars that remained in stock long enough to have been "retitled" to the current model year. A plate such as "STC-66" likely came off a car built sometime (perhaps fairly early on) in 1965. All perfectly legal back then, of course!

 

[Geo Hahn]

Here is where the STC plate is affixed on mine:

 

[Darrell_Walker]

My TR4A (built in March, 1966), also had the STC-66 tag.

The original California registration had the "VIN" as 66CTC.....

Mine is red.

 

[Rrbbeerrttoo]

Thanks guys.

My car engine compartment has only the two nameplates, one by the voltage regulator and one by the wiper motor . I do have 2 pairs of extra holes by the volt. reg., but none match the STC nameplate. As I said in OP, I probably removed it off a junk car w/o understanding why mine did not have one! Thank you again.

Robert
1966 tr4a irs
CTO? or CTC 53788L

 

[Geo Hahn]

My TR4A <snip> California registration had the "VIN" as 66CTC...

As I understand it, California didn't like the short commission numbers used by Triumph (and others) and added some characters to make them long enough for their system. That's what I was told anyway.

Oddly, when I registered my TR3A in California (about 1991) they didn't mind an 8-digit VIN. Perhaps because it was previously titled elsewhere with that number.

 

[Andrew Mace]

Gee, I wonder what California DMV would've done had the second production TR2 (commission number: TS2) been registered there? :laugh:

 

[Geo Hahn]

VIN: WHATTHEHECKISATS2

 

[JDstr4a]

Mine has an added zero on the title VIN, which really threw me off when I got it. Guess Illinois just took it on themselves to deal with the short numbers. Probably cost me a half day and a small fortune to get it corrected, so it's way down the list.

 

[Andrew Mace]

Where did they add the zero? Was it CTC584890L?

 

[JDstr4a]

Yes, on the title but not on the tag, at least what's left of it.

 

[Andrew Mace]

Strange, to say the least. I'm assuming it was NOT originally an overdrive car (which would've read CTC58489LO)?

 

[martx-5]

Back in the early '70s, I had a Saab Sonnett II. It was an early model that had the three cylinder two stroke. About 300 of those were made. The VIN on mine was 235. Back then, NY didn't have a problem with small VIN's.

 

[JDstr4a]

aksed the owner to the point of irritation if it was an overdrive car and eventually took his word for it and verfied when I picked it up. Assumed it was just a typo, considering some of the people I've dealt with in the title process for my other vehicles, it doesn't seem more far fetched than a problem with short VINs in '67. Of course I'm sure things have improved since then, what with the state of technology where it is! :smirk: