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MK1 or MK2?
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blastfromthepast:
from my research it seems that the original MK1 can easily be identified as having a grey boot. The MK2 had a white boot.
I also read that the MK1 had a sticker on the centre console that said made by Hoover & Sinclair.
MK2 they apparently dropped the Hoover name off the sticker.
thing is, mine has a white boot, suggesting MK2. But it also has a sticker that says Hoover & Sinclair suggesting MK1.
assuming my research is correct, what have I got?
KarlG:
Hi,
allow me to send you a wobbler, and set you into a spin.
You quote Mk1 and Mk2, then you should add a Mk3. ;D
I don't know when the change-over of the boots took place but, IIRC it took place at Hoover.
The serial number may help to define if you have a Mk3. To decipher the serial n°. here is an example:
V50100545. Forget the V, the n° is set up as follows
5 01 00545
5 = 1985
01 = January
00545 = the 545th item from the line in Jan. 85
Hoover ceased production in Aug. 85, but I have 2 C5s with the serial n°. V510, this indicates they were produced in Nov. 85. These were probably produced by Adam Harper (at that time a Sinclair employee), who bought up all that was left over at Hoover.
I have 4 C5s that can be identified, two are pre Aug. 85, and two are post Aug. The pre Aug. models have Hoover on the stickers, but the post Aug. don't. I term the post Aug models Mk3s. ;D ;D
If it helps the Jan. and May models (the May model unused out of the box), have grey boots.
blastfromthepast:
thanks for that.
my serial is: V 100050201492
so 1985, February, 1492nd to roll off the line
so a Mk1 or 2.
cheers
KarlG:
Hi Gary,
unless you are the original owner, or know who the original owner was, there is no way of knowing. Yours may have been issued with a grey boot and at some time in the past it was swopped for a light coloured one.
I should imagine that they were producing C5s with both colours at the same time until stocks of the grey ones expired. But as I quoted the unused one that came out of the box is a May issue with a grey boot. So I assume as yours is a Feb. issue, you have, as you term it, a Mk1 with a swopped boot.
blastfromthepast:
Thanks
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