Funnily enough, I was talking with Peter Ellis about this a few weeks ago. He probably has the largest information base about them than anyone else anywhere. He goes under ' dynamite arrows' on here.
Common theory is that yes the early carbon tubbed cars had their numbers starting with the year of manufacture - so a first of the line '93 car would have a number beginning with a 3 and so on to 95 when the carbon tubers stopped being officially made.
However we have discovered some anomalies.... For example we have records of some carbon fibre chassis having numbers starting with 1 or 7, letters after the numbers, and 5-number or 6 numbers. Yours is the first ive heard of having letters before the numbers, but Peter may know otherwise.
We think that for example chassis starting with '1' may be the very early Team chassis race cars - there is a chap on o0ple that actually has one of these and is in a 3-page thread here somewhere. And i believe he was one of the very first team drivers that drove for TTech so that could be the answer there.
Chassis starting with 7 we think could be replacement chassis ( they did break...) or chassis that were released after they officially stopped production of them in '95.
I've never seen a chassis with letters before the numbers, but I actually have a early '93 chassis with the letter 's' after the numbers - never seen or heard of another like it.... so far. And it's no different whatsoever in dimensions than my '94 or '95 chassis, so we are both lost on that one.
I have seen comparable chassis with 6 numbers and starting with multiple 1's or 7's, and going by the style of writing on mine, yours are probably one of these as they look like T's when worn. If so, by the information we have found out, yours could be a early Team car or a replacement chassis with parts from '93 to '95 cars. Or even later inj moulded cars. Remember Predator and Predator XT's were gold anodised and '95 Pros and One's were blue anodised. Mostly....
Give Peter a pm, he's a helpful chap and might be able to answer your question better than myself.
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