Thread: Year of manufacture???

Being a bit pedantic, VIN did not exist during Series 2a production, but the number you have given is missing a suffix letter, which is the bit that will give the date of manufacture (well, approximately, anyway) but otherwise looks like a 2a chassis number. See Clifton Scientific Text Services, the Netherlands when you have the suffix letter.

John

Thanks John,
The letter is C, which meams that in probability by the time it got to Australia and was put together with the 'BHP' stamped tray, it was probably sold in '67. I am happy to live with a 1967 ute.
The funny thing is, that both myself and my mustang are of the same year of manufacture, so now I have the trifecta.

Cheers,

Phillip

Hi All,
I have another connundrum for you.
What year and model should I say my 88" is?
Simple question? Maybe but she has been built up from seven different wrecks over the last two years or so.
Chassis & guards are Series III
Firewall is Series II
Doors, engine & gearbox are Series IIA.

It's more than just curiosity as I will have to make some sort of decision when it comes to registration, and then there is the question of emission control if it is a SIII and the problem of seat belts (engineer's cert) if it is a 1960 SII or SIIA

What is the legal status, and which way do you reccommend I go.
Dave

Originally Posted by Mustlust

Hi there,
I have read up on the difficulties of establishing the year of manuf. for the S2A, but as my ID plate on the shelf on the passenger side has been worn clean, all I have is the VIN and serial numbers.
Can anyone help as I would love to learn a bit more about my old girl??
VIN 25320030*
Body No. 14564
Ser No. 10914564.
I have assumed that the 109 tray back was a CKD, and the build year was '64... Is this correct?

Thanks.

25320030 C was a cab chassis fitted with a table top body, delivered to Woodward Pinkis a NSW dealer on 15/03/1967

Originally Posted by praxis

Hi All,
I have another connundrum for you.
What year and model should I say my 88" is?
Simple question? Maybe but she has been built up from seven different wrecks over the last two years or so.
Chassis & guards are Series III
Firewall is Series II
Doors, engine & gearbox are Series IIA.

It's more than just curiosity as I will have to make some sort of decision when it comes to registration, and then there is the question of emission control if it is a SIII and the problem of seat belts (engineer's cert) if it is a 1960 SII or SIIA

What is the legal status, and which way do you reccommend I go.
Dave

If it has an SIII chassis then it is a SIII and the rest of the body should comply.

How do you tell a SII firewall from a pre-1967 SIIa?

The seat belt anchorages for a SIII are the same fittings used on the late SIIa models.

The gearbox from the SIIa (D and later suffix) are stronfer than the SIII type and make no difference to the ADR compliance.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Ladies

25320030 C was a cab chassis fitted with a table top body, delivered to Woodward Pinkis a NSW dealer on 15/03/1967

Diana you take all the fun out of the detective stuff don't you

Mrs hh

Thanks for that, Diana.
Was there any polution crap on the SIIIs that has to go on for rego?

BTW is there any way to pick the diff between a SII & early IIA firewall?

Originally Posted by praxis

Thanks for that, Diana.
Was there any polution crap on the SIIIs that has to go on for rego?

BTW is there any way to pick the diff between a SII & early IIA firewall?

Some of the SIII had air pumps to dilute the exhaust and the I seem to remember that they re-breathed their crankcase fumes and the fuel tank was non vented. Other than that not much. Most people doing the rego stuff won't pick that on a 30+ year old vehicle, but may on the dash or windscreen mountings and the later SIII needed anti-burst door locks.

There are a number of very slight differences in firewalls, mostly in the position for the bracket that braces the firewall to the chassis bracket on the passengers side. Functionally they are the same and only the fittings change. Very very few LR experts can identify a SII from an early SIIa The real difference comes when the post '66 vehicles got the cable wipers.