Year ago, I started a register of Bagheera's.
Still to be found on my old web site, here :
http://www.matra-bagheera.com/Register/register.htmlToday, nearly 500 Bagheera (not all surviving) are known on this register
Enough to understand the production ?
Not quite so ...
One of the issue is that most of the people limit themselve to the chassis number.
As you all know the chassis number is stamped on front of the windscreen, on the passenger side of continental Bagheera's
2 other numbers stamped on the chassis are usefull to know :
Assembly numberIn the engine bay, a tiny plate is welded on with a number refering to the chassis plate assembly.
Location on a Serie 1 :(one of my 1975 S model)
Location on a Serie 2( My 1979 Bagheera X)
Country specific numberWith a slighly different sequence than the previous one, the country specific code refers to the car being assembled for a country specific market
LocationIn front of the driver side, on this little horizontal area
Country specific codes :
FRA = France of course
SUI = Swiss
AUT = Autrich
BEL = Belgium
ITA = Italy
ALL = Germany
And thanks to Andy, I know now that AN0 or ANG seems to be the UK specific ones
(Sorry Andy but my picture is too bad to tell more that what we saw on Baggyrouge)
Still don't know about Norway cars or other countries
Again, the sequence is slightly different than the chassis number that seemed to have been stamped just before dispatching the cars
Don't assume that your Bagheera is displaying your country code.
My Yellow Serie 1 S is actually a French model
I tend to believe that Bagheera's were produced in batches for country specific market
For instance, between 7X406992 and 7X407236, I only know chassis number coming from UK
without being affirmative on the country specific code. That would be a huge batch of about 250 cars !
Could I ask you to check your numbers in order to clarify this part of Matra history ?
Thanks in advance !