Topic: CB550 K3 Dating confusion

[tosh]

Hi all, I've just acquired another 550 after an absence of nearly 20 years, it's a uk bike (in the uk), both the frame  No CB550K202**** and the engine No. CB550E202**** match the reg documents and if I'm right place it firmly as a 1977 K3 but it is on a 1981 W plate and date of first registration and first registration in tha uk are shown as March 1981!!! Any body have any sugestions as to the 4 year difference particularly as they stopped production in 1979 

[Deltarider]

I don't know about the British way of registrating but it seems to me the bike must have been imported by someone from elsewhere unless it has been sitting in the shop for 4 years.

[tosh]

The uk registration document shows both the date first registered and the date first registered in the uk, imports normally have different dates in these two fields but as both dates are identical in this case it would seem it is not an import although not impossible I guess, I had wondered if it had sat in a showroom unregistered for several years

[calj737]

...I had wondered if it had sat in a showroom unregistered for several years

This is the most likely scenario.