09-03-2019, 07:08 PM
Well, good afternoon, gents.
I am back after a few weeks research, with a follow up to this issue.
The seller of the car (no impropriety suggested on his behalf, by the way), has got back to me with the actual numbers from the various bits of metal, having been away for a spell. So here goes....
Chassis number is: 146841
Engine number is: 163055
Body number is: AK29 (from tranny tunnel)
(the two former numbers being as shown on the logbook)
So... to me that means an early AH Tourer according to the body and the engine, but on an earlier 1932 longer chassis. Perhaps there was one lying about in the stack unused that they thought we'd better get cracking with... I kind of like that story. Maybe it was bottom of the heap, then got a load of later chassis dumped on it on a Friday afternoon by some fellas keen to get down the boozer, and then only surfaced 6 months later. Who knows....?
Doesn't explain the registration date of Feb 1932 on the logbook, though... maybe some clerical error over the years.
Anyway, I'm sufficiently confident that it'll pass muster with the French given the sketchiness of records back then, so on y va with the purchase.... soon to be bimbling along the Pyrennean roads.... nothing too steep, however!
I am back after a few weeks research, with a follow up to this issue.
The seller of the car (no impropriety suggested on his behalf, by the way), has got back to me with the actual numbers from the various bits of metal, having been away for a spell. So here goes....
Chassis number is: 146841
Engine number is: 163055
Body number is: AK29 (from tranny tunnel)
(the two former numbers being as shown on the logbook)
So... to me that means an early AH Tourer according to the body and the engine, but on an earlier 1932 longer chassis. Perhaps there was one lying about in the stack unused that they thought we'd better get cracking with... I kind of like that story. Maybe it was bottom of the heap, then got a load of later chassis dumped on it on a Friday afternoon by some fellas keen to get down the boozer, and then only surfaced 6 months later. Who knows....?
Doesn't explain the registration date of Feb 1932 on the logbook, though... maybe some clerical error over the years.
Anyway, I'm sufficiently confident that it'll pass muster with the French given the sketchiness of records back then, so on y va with the purchase.... soon to be bimbling along the Pyrennean roads.... nothing too steep, however!