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That looks like a UK registration plate under the Iranian one. Plates with an M suffix indicate a date of 1st registration between August 1st 1973 & July 31st 1974 - which AFAIK is pretty much not possible for an XJ-S.
I do not know anything about UK plates however the iranian plate is in fact a real old iranian plate.
are you suggesting that this a photoshop? if so why anybody would do that ?
what one would gain by doing it?
British?.. maybe not it’s LHD??
Those black painted infills on the inboard sides of the tail light lenses might make this a 1975-1977 year XJ-S. The infills went to painted silver/grey in 1978 and then just chrome in 1981.
Paul
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I had not even considered photoshop - like you say, no one has any reason to do that. It was just interesting as I don’t know of any other countries that have a similar registration plate format to the UK. I thought the XJ-S below was a very early car being registered between 1/8/74 & 31/7/75. I hadn’t seen that the car in your photo was LHD.
I know nothing of Tehran, but I once saw a website showing abandoned exoticars all over some city in the Mideast – Dubai, I think. The story was that good Muslims weren’t supposed to show off with fancy cars, so when the authorities cracked down they’d just abandon them.
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a while back there was an XJ220 abandend on the side of a hiway in Dubai, half covered with sand from the wind!
i bet Bleasie dont have that one??
I think random XJS pics are cool. Thanks for sharing! Here is one I took in Paris in Dec. 2014. There is a blue convertible parked down by the water…
Hopefully this link works… If my link to flickr actually works the next pic in the series is a “close up…”
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Plates with an M suffix indicate a date of 1st registration between August 1st 1973 & July 31st 1974 - which AFAIK is pretty much not possible for an XJ-S.
Possible if it was a personal reg number, in the UK a car can display a plate older, but not newer then registered.
True - I’d not thought about that but ‘private (vanity) plates’ in that era tended to be a combination of letters & numbers with no suffix.