Thread: Vin Questions

For a start, it is a chassis number not a VIN - Vehicle Identification Numbers did not exist then; A VIN is a much larger sequence of numbers and letters, and is unique to that specific vehicle, with parts of the number identifying the manufacturer, the model and various other details.

A chassis number is simply a serial number assigned by the manufacturer without reference to any other use of that number outside that manufacturer or sometimes even that model. So you need the manufacturer's records to get anything other than the barest information.

In this case, the suffix gives the significant manufacturing changes, and you already have the dates of that. The only other part of the number I can help with is that the 347 shows it to be a six cylinder Right Hand Steering CKD (Completely Knocked Down) Export model. (Information from the workshop manual) The 1966 is the serial number; I don't know how many Export RHD CKD sixes were sold with suffix D, but I'm guessing that this was probably fairly close to the end of the sequence, hence close to the end of the 'D' time period. Australia would have been the largest market for RHD CKD Landrovers at that time.

At this date, CKD Export RHD is what you would expect to find for an Australian assembled vehicle, and the bulkhead would have shown it to be originally a six, so it really just confirms what you would already have guessed.

Hope this helps
John

number : 34701966�D.

Land Rover series 2A 109"

Model 347 Land Rover series 2A 109"
Model year 1966-1971
Body style Basic
Engine Type 2.6l (2625cc) petrol
Market, steering CKD (Export), RHD
Serial Number 01966
Suffix letter D 2. revision of this model. Suffix used from June 1967 to March 1968

That information from Classic Land Rovers Norway

The vehicle was NOT distributed in NSW but vehicles assembled in Sydney with numbers within 100 of yours were sold in NSW between April and June 1968.

Hope this helps.

Diana

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34701966D

347 Model: Land Rover, Series IIA
Body type: Basic
Wheel base: 109in
Engine: 6-cylinder
Model years: 1966-1971
Destination: Completely knocked down (CKD), right-hand drive (RHD)
01966 Serial number
D Design: Three significant design modifications
Suffix used from April 1967 till March 1968

Information supplied by Clifton Scientific Text Services, the Netherlands