Thread: Vehicle History Research tools

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Only if the vehicle was sold in NSW, because the records on most other Eastern states have been lost.

In your case however, your vehicle is unmolested.

Did you ever get other details on its history?

It was originally a NSW Police vehicle, delivered on 20th May 1971, always a hard top, it may have had security mesh (like cargo barriers are made from) installed inside and a cargo barrier, most Police 88" in that era did.

Dunlop Road Track major tyres, ignition key F?-896, Drivers door and tailgate F?-683 & 891.

The rego looks like it was BIO-022 but can't be sure.

Isuzutoo-eh also has a NSW Police SIIa.

Originally Posted by harry

Hi Diana,
s2a query, chassis no. 24319536G
engine no. 24136026A
it's a station wagon as I own it but reg'd as a ute, 88in
calvin says it was ckd rhd and it does have a pressed metal corp number , but the car is outside and wrapped up and it's cold here, so if needed I will make a special trip out there.
Is it possible to find if the engine matches the chassis number?

please accept my apology, I missed your reply Diana to my query.


now to answer your question, the chap I bought it from said it had been owned by a person that wanted to keep it all original, but that was the end of knowledge of previous ownership, that conversation may have been in the buying process and I got the car from country nsw, wooh, we don't want those city folk to know too much, next thing they'll be down here stealing our land,
interestingly, you have identified it as an ex police vehicle, thank you.
there is evidence of the fitment of a roof light and possibly an antenna, several holes in the roof show this possibility and I have covered those up when I redid the roof restoration, none of these holes went into the safari roof, so it must have come later.
another interesting thing is that the owners manual that came with it belonged to a nsw police car, but not mine, so I guess the buyer from the police auction grabbed an owners manual from another car at the auction to complete his purchase.
the car does have a winch and an overdrive, which the previous owner removed, and which I bought with the car and have refitted the winch.
another interesting thing is that the wings are drilled for pioneer tools like military trucks, but there is definitely no drab green on the car, it has a patina that shows every coat of paint ever put on it!


thanks Diana, this is most interesting, I will get into the owners manual and post the land rover numbers given in it as someone here may have that car.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Hi Chris

Sorry for not getting back to these I only found the post today. Those vehicles are quite interesting as they are the orphan SII 88" model that still had the series 1 IOE 2 litre engine where the 109" had the pushrod 2.283 litre or 2 litre diesel.

It only lasted for one production year 1958, and most of the vehicles in that group have lost their 2 litre engine. Have you looked at the 1418 sticky thread 1418 prefix engines

Now to your vehicles:
No.1
Chassis No. 143800622; Engine No. 141805081: the only information I have on that one is that the entire batch (103) was sent to Queensland (Annand and Thompson), the engine is the original one fitted, it was a soft top and the key code 666.

No.2
Chassis No. 143800068; Engine No. 141800650: The information is difficult to read. The engine is the original one fitted, it was a soft top and the key code 672. It was delivered 24/10/58

Not so good analysing the customer. See if you can work it out?

Diana

Thanks Diana,

I cant work it out either, it says Goodooga something. 143800068 has "Gleeson"(I think is says that) written on the guards in faint paint. I think this was the property name it was working on. It has no indicators, series 1 radiator and a brake reservoir with the 2 outlets in the bottom. The other 58 series 143800622 had no indicators originally but had series 2 radiator and the reservoir has 1 outlet at the bottom and one on the side. There are a couple of other minor differences which I forget at the moment.

Thanks again.
Chris