If it helps, several years ago, I went into Gaydon to research Toledos. Bear in mind that the Toledo and 1500FWD were launched at the same time, even though the 1500 had its body shipped from Liverpool to Canley to be trimmed, whereas Toledo stayed in Speke and was assembled there complete.
The first Tolly was ADG1DL. I think that this was the test prototype car (
http://www.motorgraphs.com/content/thum ... nImage.jpg)
The other very early press production cars (from ADG2DL) were sent to the launch in Belgium, along with the early 1500FWDs, all of which bore single figure chassis numbers, from what I recall. The earliest build record I could find for Toledo was from ADG11DL.
The launch was held in September 1970, if I remember right.
Generally, for Toledos (and for 1500FWD, from what I could see) the commission numbers are roughly sequential but they did skip numbers, especially if there was a specification change.
The 1500FWD tended not to have many changes really, other than an increase in power, when the front nose badge changed its colours round; early ones (like yours) is a ‘black label’ model and I think the chassis number altered from WB to YB. Somewhere, I have the numbers.
I did see your car on eBay and thought it must have a very low chassis number; sounds like you might have the earliest one in existence…
R