Mac,
Whoa there big fella!! R90S production ended in the summer of 1976!
Then BMW started tooling up for /7 production. There are REAL honest to
goodness 1973 R90S's, but really only in Germany. German law states
that any vehicle must be sold as the year it was actually built in.
That is how 1973 90S's, 1969 /5's, 1976 R100RS's and R100S's exist. In
the US it is perfectly acceptable and legal to sell a vehicle built in
1973 as a 1974 model.
Cheers, Phil Rose
--- R90SWORLDNET@... wrote:
Subject: Model Year of R90ss
Anthony: Each year BMW and other manufacturers start building next
year's
bike about August or September. So the R90s was first built in about
August
of 1973 as 1974 models. They then build the 1974 models until the
following
August (which is 1975), when they start the 1975 model.
They do this also for the 1976 model, building the 1976 model from
say
August 1976 until July of 1977.
So you could have a 1974 model year BMW built in Dec of 1973, and a
1976
model year BMW built in January of 1977, for instance. But the model
years
for the R90s was for 1974, 1975 and 1976. The date they are actually
built
is not the model year of the bike necessarily.
The certificate of origin or CO or Manufacturer's Statement of Origin
(a
"birth certificate" for the bike) states on it the model year for the
bike,
at least for the US. I have a copy of an original CO from 1974 that
each
dealer used to make a title for the bike. And of course the build
date is on
the bike itself.
If you look back in the archives for this site at www.egroups.com
you will
find many previous discussions about this same subject. There is a
lot of
confusion about this sequence of events.
Hope this helps.
Best,
Mac Kirkpatrick
Glenmoore, PA USA
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