Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[PAUL BEAUMONT]

Got my new V5 document from the good folks at DVLA yesterday and realised that my Jowett was 65 last Saturday!

Paul

[Bitumen Boy]

I'd had my Herald for a good few years before I realised - I think when filling out the notification of a change of engine number - that we share a birthday, first registered for the road exactly 19 years before I started the exacting task of putting my dear old mum off the idea of ever having any more kids... Of all the cars on the road, and 365/6 days in a year, I wonder what the chances of that are?

[Penman]

Hi
If you have owned 19 cars there is a probability of 41% that either 2 of the cars or you and one of the cars will share a birthday.

http://www.calctool.org/CALC/math/probability/birthdays

This is actually for people sharing birthdays and there is probably an even spread of birthdates, whereas because cars are probably not registered at wholly random dates through the month the odds might even be higher
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Bristols should always come in pairs.

Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
V8 V10

[Bitumen Boy]

I'm frankly amazed that there's an answer to that question that's more than a wild guess - as someone whose mathematical ability ends at working out fuel economy (and then only using a calculator) I can only say that respect is due!