We've got an extra slampanel under the bonnet with "nr 10 karmann" on it.
(on the right of the MD sticker as you can see on this picture).
So we were very curious aswell about the car's history 'coz we've never seen a plate like it before on another escos.

Ford Belgium was very helpful: "Yes sir, your car has been made in december '91. That's all we know. No sir, we can't seem to find the chassisnumber in our records."
Tried Karmann several times, but never got any answers.
So eventually went to see the first owner...
He said Ford had told Karmann to test the new assembly line by making 20 cars. If those cars were ok, production would begin.
Our car is the nr 10 car of that testbatch according to him.

Because nobody else seems to know anything about this, I can't really verify if it's true or not...