Hiya Clive.
I've been and had a look. Mine was registered 2 November 1962. I have an old green log book too, but only a continuation one from the early 70s.
I've always been intriuged by mine as it has lots of very early features. When I looked into them years ago I dated the car as roughly November 1961.
Obvious things like the bulkhead was pressed on the early concrete tooling, flat floor, low roof line (about 1/2" lower if I remember rightly, alloy dash, drop head seats, and the factory converted doors etc. It probably had the external bonnet locks, but the bonnet had been changed when I bought it back in '85 or '86 - can't remember without looking.
I always presumed that the car had been built and then sat around for a year for some reason??? I guess this would be confirmed if your doesn't have these same features?
Looking at your seats, I'd say they're the later type - what about the other bits?
This project has been on hold for too may years now - mainly down to houses, kids and gardens... SO I've decided to get a few other projects sorted this year, and I will re-start this as my New Years Resolution.
The vast majority of the photo's I have are pre-digital. I have about 10 albums full of the body rebuild I did, and although I will scan a few when I start my rebuild thread to see where the project started, I won't be doing them all!
The car is now in paint, and ready to be fitted up. Last time I worked on it was 13 years ago (!!!). The early birth of my first daughter caused the 'pause'
Shaun.