No one has brought up the fact that cars' model years are misidentified fairly often. Yesterday, I pulled an exhaust manifold off a car that was marked as a 78 240D. Examination of the emissions and data stickers indicated the car was clearly a 77 with a 7/77 build date. I've seen stuff like that quite a few times. More common is when a car is built in the calendar year preceeding the model year (say a 77 built 10/76 like mine) being subsequently misidentified as a 76 model.

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83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 401,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 26,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.
99 Mazda Miata 183,xxx miles.