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Old 22 September 2008 | 12:16 PM
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Is it no 1 of 444 - An oddity a bit like the white test bed P1 perhaps?

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Old 22 September 2008 | 12:35 PM
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Text says "believed 1 of 444." To me that reads there were 444 produced and this is believed to be one of them. W plate is very late if it is a genuineb RB5. They were released in 1999.
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Old 22 September 2008 | 12:38 PM
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Defo not No 1. if you ask me. as above most that i remember were T plates so before that one.
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Its missing the fog light covers too.
Here's a genuine one courtesy of another post on here

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...sSept08098.jpg
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Thanks guys - that all makes sense.

So seeing as it is a touch on the late side - perhaps it has just been made to look like a RB5!
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Check the pictures

No RB5 on front wing, nothing on the rear, no stitching on seats (right colour?) and no RB5 Ltd Ed plate in front of the gear stick...
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Rear spoiler as well...
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Check the pictures

No RB5 on front wing, nothing on the rear, no stitching on seats (right colour?) and no RB5 Ltd Ed plate in front of the gear stick...
Thats why I thought it was very odd that it was an RB5.... because there was no badging anywhere!
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If it had had a respray then possibly but not the interior badging
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& not too sure about the shut lines...
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