Thanks Christopher for supplying the VIN

Your Cabriolet which has been on the Data Base for over 20 years First Registered C 200 CJO (Oxford) owned for many years by O J Wells, is not a Tickford built car, it is car number 488 build date—- 15-May-85

Although there is no record of when the change over was it’s thought to be Circa 100 .