Is this the first RB5?

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22 September 2008, 12:16 PM

Steve Whitehorn

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Is this the first RB5?

This for sale. Complete RB5 Spec - but without the badging!

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Is it no 1 of 444 - An oddity a bit like the white test bed P1 perhaps?

What do you think
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Its just down the road from me

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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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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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22 September 2008, 12:45 PM

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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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22 September 2008, 12:45 PM

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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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22 September 2008, 12:45 PM

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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...