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David Cochrane
Nov 11, 2016 - 10:32PM
Re: another crazy priced barn find... or well justified?

Ruairidh Dunford
Here is a photo from the '24 car I owned showing a (C) Chassis number, (E) engine number and (B) for the body number but - no number stamped!
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I thought this was unusual but I have since seen two more cars that do not have anything stamped next to the 'B", anyone else found similar?

My car is stamped
C 10135
E 10135
B

I know of 8 other cars like this, the earliest being C 9136, the latest being C 11423. Several of them are in Australia, which ties in with what Bill has posted. I wondered whether Ruairidh's former car could originally have had a coachbuilt body?

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Ruairidh Dunford
Nov 11, 2016 - 10:54PM
Re: another crazy priced barn find... or well justified?

That would certainly explain the lack of body when I found it!

I wonder what it could have been...

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Dave Martin
Nov 13, 2016 - 7:52PM
Re: another crazy priced barn find... or well justified?

When Phil Baildon and I went to look at this car at Chippenham, Phil crawled underneath and confirms that there were 3 numbers stamped on the chassis cross member. Unfortunately, without a deep clean, the Body number could not be read.
However, it was stamped on the transmission tunnel in the usual place and was 5832. As the Chassis was 5882, I would be happy to assume the body was the original one.

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