Car listing after their name

In the posts of many people you will see their car listed after their name - 2010 VS, 1986 CMC, etc.

I realize what I am about to ask is not an issue for most people here but for people like me and Wolfgang there is something I have been wondering.

Should the year listed be the year kit was bought, the year construction was started or the year construction was finished?

This is not a trivial issue for some. It can be a matter of decades. Maybe in special cases it should be listed like a on tombstone: 1983 - 2010.

You mean like in auto shows when they ask me "What year is your car", and I reply, "Uh, which exact part on the car are you referring to"?

Michael----simple (to me)-----I always take the year to mean when it was finished and made it's debut on the road.

My VS was built in 2007 so my year shown is 2007. I had a new Type IV engine installed in 2010 but it's still a 2007.

I can't imagine how else to show a date fot a replica Speedster.

In other words--it's birth date--- not when conception took place.

Mike - I was going to go the the symbol for INFINITY but thought some would think I gave up totally! Guess I need to update to 2011. Actually even when I'm driving it, I'm not sure it will even be truly be done. I am going to register it with VA DMV this year so maybe that will be the year! Is kind of funny that CMC has been out of business since like 1992 and mine is a 2010 or 2011! I hoping DMV will accept the antique 1970 (year of VW donor) CONV plates I bought. Just hope they don't see the Coupe on the FL title and give me a hassle over that --- the orange vs now Black shouldn't be a problem.

I wasn't concerned about how to register it with the state.

They will consider mine a 1972 VW.

I was only talking about how to list it here.

It doesn't seem right to call a car a 2010 CMC when CMC has been out of business for many years.

It seems more appropriate to call it by the year of manufacture of the kit by CMC.

I think the year that it was made road ready. Mine was started by VS in 2005, completed and then sold & registered shortly thereafter. Therefore: 2005 production.