Thread: Body swap 86 onto 93 chassis

The '86 body will have to conform to the '93 ADRs
Also, as the compliance plate cannot be removed (supposedly), Queensland Transport may require a modification plate.

I'd be chatting to a VASS engineer and/or Queensland Transport.

I'd just find another body and move the build plates over .... 20 seconds work. all my cars (regardless of brand) seem ot have the plates held on with a couple of pop rivets!

It's probably going to be cheaper and easier to buy another car and keep that one as a parts car though. Man these things have the structural integrity of a wet paper bag. Look at the roof and that thing

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

I'd just find another body and move the build plates over .... 20 seconds work. all my cars (regardless of brand) seem ot have the plates held on with a couple of pop rivets!

How do you get around the VIN/chassis number stamped in the body? Is it stamped on the body somewhere? Firewall perhaps?

VIN on the RRC is stamped on the chassis behind front drivers wheel, very hard to see sometimes

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

How do you get around the VIN/chassis number stamped in the body? Is it stamped on the body somewhere? Firewall perhaps?

Early RRC's don't have any stamped VIN on the body, just the plate.

Later ones did. Not sure of the year.

DL

Oh I'm bad ... If that is the case, I'd buy a silver one of similar vintage and move the tags across (so long as you haven't claimed that one on insurance). This avoids having to get RWC's etc......

Now to put on my flame proof suite before I hit reply ..... because this is "illegal"

Body older than chassis ain't legal in Vic.

In my case a 1981 red body onto a 74 chassis that previously had a white body is 'classed' as a colour change and could be done over the phone.

Pop rivets and an aluminium plate were involved in this colour change.

The only differences between the actual bodies were that the 81 had repeater lamps on the front guards (deleted) and that the 74 only had one side mirror, D/S, which it now has.

Just a colour change.

DL

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Body older than chassis ain't legal in Vic.

In my case a 1981 red body onto a 74 chassis that previously had a white body is 'classed' as a colour change and could be done over the phone.

Pop rivets and an aluminium plate were involved in this colour change.

The only differences between the actual bodies were that the 81 had repeater lamps on the front guards (deleted) and that the 74 only had one side mirror, D/S, which it now has.

Just a colour change.

DL

It is a Qld question, but that aside, I am aware of heaps of older bodies on a new chassis registered in Victoria