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Engine/chassis numbers
ancientbugger - July 3rd, 2008 at 07:07 PM

I know this has been done before but I'm trying to establish what the hell I've got? The chassis number isn't very clear, all I can read is 118 475 0??-could be 69. The engine number is a81310P and that is lower case a and cap P. Any help would be most appreciated.
Barry


Joel - July 3rd, 2008 at 07:30 PM

chassis is 68 but A engine number ive never seen b4
letters were never lowercase from the factory so makes u wonder
is it definatley an A? cos normally theres 6 numbers
ive seen a few sinlge port 1500s with P on the end tho


68AutoBug - July 3rd, 2008 at 07:50 PM

Maybe the engine was an Australian industrial engine
and thats a wild guess

or it was a new case which come unnumbered..
and someone used that number??

small "a" seems strange..

then again My engine has "Hi Power Conv 2062"
stamped near the engine number??

but the engine number is still there...

that is a hard one...

do you have any pics of the engine?

LEE


ancientbugger - July 4th, 2008 at 08:50 AM

Right, I've just had another look in daylight and I can now see a faint B at the start and the lower case a is actually a small Q and looks to be a newer stamp. Does that make things simpler or confuse matters more?


68AutoBug - July 4th, 2008 at 09:04 AM

No small case letters were used on beetle engines

D
AE
H
etc


helbus - July 4th, 2008 at 06:19 PM

Queensland Police issued engine number perhaps?

They do V######P numbers in Victoria!


ancientbugger - July 5th, 2008 at 09:02 AM

I've never heard of that one before but I suppose as the cap B is barely visible you could have a point.