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How many RV8s were made and in what colours?
John Bolt (Nightfire Red 1228) from Buckingamshire has been doing some research at the Heritage Museum at Gaydon and has produced an interesting chart setting out authoritative details of the number of RV8s produced in each colour which will interest RV8 enthusiasts. (Nov 04)

John Bolt popped into Gaydon recently to get a Heritage Certificates for his RV8 and enquired of the archivist whether they had any details of how many RV8s had been produced in each colour. He found they did not have that information to hand but indicated he could work through the build cards for the production cars and produce the information. A few weeks later John found he had a day to spare so set off again for Gaydon and took up the archivist's offer. The table below is the result - an authoratitive addition to the RV8s archives which John has sent in as a new RV8 Workshop Note.



From his manuscript copy of the records, John found his RV8 (Nightfire Red 1228), a reimported car from Japan, was the 58th car in Nightfire Red and 674th car sent to Japan. The table shows that 80% of the RV8s sent to Japan were in Woodcote Green. On separate documents there are records of the pre-production Development and Validation cars which John is intending to investigate further on another visit to Gaydon. He aims to clarify whether there were 18 or 20 or more RV8s in those categories which will answer the questions frequently posed by RV8 enthusiasts - typically "how many cars were produced in each colour, which colours and how many of each went to Japan?".

RV8 build cards The build cards are in three colours: White for RV8s supplied to the UK market Pink for export - mainly to Europe, particularly Germany Yellow for cars sent to Japan. The example alongside is a reproduction of the build card for John Bolt's car, Nightfire Red 1228. For a larger copy of this build card click the link below. Build card - this image may take up to 12 seconds to download at a modest 28.8 connection speed over a domestic BT landline.