Thread: Vehicle History Research tools

Hi All,


Thought I would post up a little of the research I have done on my 51 and how I have gone about it, in hope it might help a few other new Aulroians.


Most of this will be a re-hash to the more experienced on here, but thought it would be good to have it all in the one place


Gaydon
Heritage Motor Centre Motor Museum, Gaydon ask for web enquiry to confirm the dealer your car was supplied.


AULRO
If your vehicle is one of the lucky cars that went to NSW or WA you can post on here and some very kind people can check the records and let you know, I'm not going to post there names here, because if you don't already know then please keep reading Aulro until you find out for yourself.


AOMC
Thirdly and in my case, if your car went to Victoria, you can contact AOMC www.aomc.asn.au and they will provide a rego number and first date of registration, unfortunately all Land Rovers fall into the category of when the previous owners information where destroyed, at least you can make a start with the first rego number.


Local State Road Authority
Fourthly you can contact your friendly local state road authority and write them a beautiful letter in the hope that one person who reads it might have some compassion to help you, I found a nice little template on Researching the history of your car | Ford RS Owners Club Australia to prove it's possible, I've only sent mine today so not sure what info I can get back yet!


Then there is Land rover themselves, not sure of the address and what other info you get other than Gaydon, if anyone knows please post address and info supplied


And you can also try any of those VIN checkers online, I didn't have any luck with those.


There is also the national archive data base but I've only just started looking in there, without much luck so far...


Hope this might be of some help and as always please add any info you have found.


Best Regards


LRD4

Looking for more info in regards to my 80" I was told it came from a gent from Victoria who bought it along with other heavy equipment from SMHES auctions? so far this is all I can find

Chassis No:06111525
Engine No:06111955




0
Model year: 1950

6
Model: Land Rover, Series I, 80in, petrol

1
Body type: Basic

1
Destination: unknown destination code

1525
Serial number

Originally Posted by Lost Landy

Looking for more info in regards to my 80" I was told it came from a gent from Victoria who bought it along with other heavy equipment from SMHES auctions? so far this is all I can find

Chassis No:06111525
Engine No:06111955
...<snip>

The vehicle 06111525 (or any vehicle within over 100 serials of it) does not appear in the NSW "Grenville Motors, allocation books" so it is unlikely a vehicle supplied to the SMHEA, it could however be a vehicle supplied from Regent Motors through a dealer somewhere like Wodonga and used on the scheme but not one of the SMHEA fleet.

Hello. Newbie to the site. Just bought a 1955 86" for my daughter, honest, ahem, she's 1 :-) Chassis number 57661820. Has a Holden 138 (so I'm told), (no idea, I'm from the land of the haggis!). Could someone please point me in the right direction as to where I might obtain any history for "Wee Nellie" as she's been named?
I enquired with DOT here in WA but they had no record of it or the serial number from the grey engine.

Many thanks

195586inch

Speaking of identification, I bet your missus doesn't call you 195586inch


Welcome to the site mate. I'm new to this too so I'm being silly instead of helping. Others will come on soon enough and sort things out for you.
Have you tried CalVIN ?

Feeding your number into CalVIN gives:
5 Model year: 1955
7 Model: Land Rover, Series I, petrol
6 Body type: 86in, completely knocked down (CKD)
6 Destination: Right-hand drive (RHD), export market
1820 Serial number

Calvin? Thought was the spray my better half got me for Christmas 17 years ago. Still half full.

I did manage to get that info from the forums but had hoped to delv deeper into the history of my wee car.

:-)

Originally Posted by 195586inch

Hello. Newbie to the site. Just bought a 1955 86" for my daughter, honest, ahem, she's 1 :-) Chassis number 57661820. Has a Holden 138 (so I'm told), ....
Many thanks

195586inch

Unfortuantely the number 57661820 does not appear in the NSW books.

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?