10-10-2020, 11:06 PM
Mike C is correct. The chassis number in fact 105177 and that is a replacement engine. I have the last owner as R.W. Foster. (Would that be Kit Foster by any chance?)
I think the errors in the description are simply sloppy cataloguing but using the body number as the chassis number has probably been done deliberately to make the car and the paperwork tally because officials in some American States do not recognise separate chassis and body numbers. I can envisage problems with the DVLA if the car was ever repatriated to the U.K.
I know it's too shiny etc. but apart from a few inaccuracies I think it is a fair restoration.
Trundles would quite like it as a stable mate.
I think the errors in the description are simply sloppy cataloguing but using the body number as the chassis number has probably been done deliberately to make the car and the paperwork tally because officials in some American States do not recognise separate chassis and body numbers. I can envisage problems with the DVLA if the car was ever repatriated to the U.K.
I know it's too shiny etc. but apart from a few inaccuracies I think it is a fair restoration.
Trundles would quite like it as a stable mate.