Car registration - Part I

As per older blog: http://monteverdisierra.blogspot.nl/2018/03/information-gathering.html

The car was once imported to France in 1987, see supporting documents:

It was however never officially road registered in France. In fact it was all the time active registered in the UK. So in order to get it on our name we first need to get it registered on someone else's name in the UK. And then subsequently get those registration papers handed over to us and get it locally registered in the Netherlands.

For this Jos reached out to his contact in the UK who kindly assisted us. So we can now finally say the car is officially secured. Next the paperwork needs to be submitted to myself so I can do the next steps.

I just checked the UK vehicle site but I can't find any additional information about the latest registration. I suppose this is listed on the new paperwork that has been supplied and is not available online.

The website is showing still the same information as last time. And as can been seen, the tax due date is 1 July 1984. On the other UK registration papers we have with the car this is the date when the car was transferred to the next owner.

According to the seller the previous owner was working for the Embassy. Perhaps they are excluded for paying tax? I'm not sure. The 2nd owner did had the car untill November 1987. Or did the 2nd owner not use this car in this time interval?

Another interesting fact is that the car is manufactured in 1977. And the first registration is only in November 1978. I'm unsure if this means the first road registration in the UK or at all the first road registration. As you might know we are concluding our car is the first press/prototype/show car. So perhaps it was never officially registered before untill it got sold and shipped to London UK. Maybe I can find out more history details about the car.

For now the new registration paperwork needs to be send to me but also the car needs to be transported from France to the Netherlands in order to get it registered on my name and obtain Dutch license plates. Watch this space!

Brochure Monteverdi Safari & Sierra

Although not in our possession yet I did find online a high quality scan of the Original brochure. It's now also available in PDF format in the download folder.

(Source: http://www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/others4/77mon/77mon.html)

This specific brochure is printed at 10.9/77. So by then at least the following 5 cars has produced:

1 Golden-Brown
1 Light Blue
3 Black

Just building up my records for the register.

This brochure is furthermore stamped by the car dealer: Coerper Auto Exclusiv, 4 Düsseldorf-Heerdt (am Handweiser), Burgunder Strasse 30.

Looks like this company no longer exists. Currently there is a large Ford dealer (Autohaus am Handweiser) located at this address (https://www.ford-nrw-garage-handweiser.de/).

And by surprise I managed to obtain this leaflet about this company - which shows they are indeed an authorized Monteverdi seller (and De Tomaso as well). You would expect Auto Becker in Düsseldorf would have been a better option. I will make a proper scan next week:

I now wonder which other companies were listed as official distributors/dealers for Monteverdi, can't be many. Anyone?

Monteverdi Sierra Convertible / Cabrio

It was inevitable, the hunt for Sierra material has started. I got my hands on this nice brochure. It's only a 2 sided bi-lingual leaflet. I would have expected a little more fancy brochure ... In any case, it's now available in PDF format in the download folder.

Car Napping - Monteverdi Sierra

The cover photo of this blog is a screenshot from the movie "Car Napping". See Wiki for more details about the movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car-napping  or have a glimpse at the (German) trailer:

And as you will understand I have purchased this movie and watched it during Easter. It's not exactly a great movie but it had a Monteverdi Sierra starring in it. It does even have a chapter (5) about the Monteverdi, how's that?

And another capture of the DVD:

And below a movie snapshot of the car which is taken in Salzburg in front of the http://www.cafe-glockenspiel.at/ It also reveals the license plate and apparently it's having BL4596 as well - just as in the magazine article in an earlier blog. So I suspect this must be some kind of garage plates used by Monteverdi.

Another minor detail I spotted is the top pipe line between the rear window and side window, not sure if it's suppose to be fitted like that:

The following YT video shows a little more captures of the Monteverdi Sierra used in this movie.

Stay tuned!

Press Kit - Monteverdi Sierra - Pirelli Cinturato CN36

I came across an auction regarding a press kit for the Monteverdi Sierra. Unfortunately it was an old auction which already ended in 2014. It's a pitty we have missed this one out as it did hold some nice documentation. It went for a pretty high price. For now I was only able to capture the snapshots of these two photo's included (pretty good quality).

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/26567872_monteverdi-mixed-lot-consist-of-press-kit-monteverdi

MONTEVERDI

mixed lot consist of press kit Monteverdi Sierra, January 1978, on the occasion of motor show Geneva with sales catalog Sierra, press photo and specification (engineering data), along with it fold-out brochure type Sierra, 4 pages

Starting Bid

€45.00

Buyer's Premium

• 22%

Bid History

Bidder

Bid

Competing Bid

€130.00

Starting Bid

€45.00

On the first press photo you can see again these so called "air vents"or "ornaments" on the C-pillar. Which are missing on the 2nd photo taken at the Geneva Autosalon. I know from other pictures it's the same car in the back as the car up front is the light-blue version. As such I conclude these have been some kind of optical ornaments. The used rims are still a mystery to me. 

Geneva Auto Salon 1977

From this picture I was able to have a closer look at the tyre profile. It does look like to be Pirelli's Cinturato CN36. For showing purposes the name Pirelli has been colored yellow - judging from other old car shows this was a common thing to do.

https://www.longstonetyres.co.uk/pirelli-cinturato/cn36.html

Another press / show car - Geneva Autosalon

One of the readers was so kind to supply me a very interesting magazine article from a Swedish magazine called "Teknikens värld". It's nr 9 from 27th of April 1977. Apparently it has some news articles about the Autosalon in Geneva. And you can guess it, it does have a small update about the new released Monteverdi Sierra. A photo is included and it shows two examples, a light blue version and a golden version. The light-blue version does have these non-standard rims as well. And it's missing the usual chrome trim-piping on the C-style - just like the golden version. But the blue version is missing too the Monteverdi badge on the C-Style. And the golden version on the Autosalon now seems no longer to have the "air vents / ornaments" on the C-Style.

On FB I found someone who posted another photo of a French magazine which shows the same blue version.

I have found another picture (from the Original brochure) whereby the light blue version is displayed in the Monteverdi Showroom in Binningen amongst all other available models.

Click the photo's to enlarge.

Auto Motor und Sport 1977 : Swiss made - Monteverdi Sierra: neue Luxus-Limousine aus der Schweiz.

And the first magazine article I have purchased. A nice contribution to yesterdays blog since it's showing the same press car and it's details. It's also showing it's license plate (BL 4596) and I wonder if I can retrieve more information about the car's registration. For now I'm not sure what online tools are available in Swiss that provides more detail. As always, any input is welcomed

This article is available as PDF in the public download folder (Google Drive - magazine section), it's on the top- right side bar of this blog.