just got this!

[FrankM83]

just got this Ummmmm don't ask me why as it needs loaddssss of work! it's says to be 1951 chassis 100257 which puts it in 1951 but has lots of early features like hinged fuel cap, single sunvisor, no coachline under roof, split bumpers[frame][/frame]

[Dean]

Wow.

Be interesting knowing how you go about repairing the windscreen area.....

[FrankM83]

exactly and you haven't seen the back one! Tourer is an option for the rear screen! but the front I did get a spare windscreen panel with it but even that is not in the best of conditions![frame][/frame]

[mike.perry]

Another addition to the register, does it have a registration? Should keep you busy or a couple of weeks! Could you please PM me your contact details

[dp]

just got this Ummmmm don't ask me why as it needs loaddssss of work! it's says to be 1951 chassis 100257 which puts it in 1951 but has lots of early features like hinged fuel cap, single sunvisor, no coachline under roof, split bumpers[frame][/frame]

Is that a MUTT to the right? How did you get hold of that in one piece?

[DAVIDMCCULLOUGH]

Looks like a challenging project, those are very strange areas for to have rotted so badly. The benefit thought with the older cars is that the steel is a heavier gauge and good to weld to.

Good luck with the project, plenty of pics of your progress please

[WPR678B]

exactly and you haven't seen the back one! Tourer is an option for the rear screen! but the front I did get a spare windscreen panel with it but even that is not in the best of conditions!

I still have the front section I sent you pictures of here ......

[FrankM83]

true , shipping is the only problem for that! :S

yes dp that's my brother's MUTT it's quite solid tho needing some work

[FrankM83]

so on the mystery as to what date this is I got 4 plates

the VIN plate ;- SMM 100275

engine plate ;- 102696

body number plate ;- Z17802 R 82265

BMF plate ;- 82045

no idea how to date it!

[GBond]

I rather like the two tone paint job; hadn't seen it on many pictures before.

[busguy]

Chassis number is a 1951. It is not listed on the MM register, but a couple of close survivors are.
Check out the register in this group.
Go to 'Series MM Register Web Site' (top of MMfirst page), then click on link http://seriesmm.mmoc.org.uk
Register listing is then top right.

[POMMReg]

so on the mystery as to what date this is I got 4 plates

the VIN plate ;- SMM 100275

engine plate ;- 102696

body number plate ;- Z17802 R 82265

BMF plate ;- 82045

no idea how to date it!

Ooops...

Something wrong somewhere, body number id from a 11/55 4dr!!

Chassis = FA?/?? 38????

What you SHOULD have is Z12102-3 - Followed by the prog. nos. & Cowley plate.

Odd!

Chris
MINOReg Historian

[FrankM83]

Well those are the plates i have car could be ringed then!? What strange is usually when they ring a car they change VIn plate not body no. The chassis no on the vin plate says SMM 100275

[FrankM83]

Does the bmf plate give the year of a car?

[plastic_orange]

I'd have thought an MM series without the moulding under the rear window would be at the latest the latter half of 1950. I've seen late 1950 models with the moulding. Mine is July 1950 and without.
I wouldn't worry too much about it though, so long as you get a V5C.

Pete

[FrankM83]

I do have a V5 and the car has been off the road since 1988!! So if it was ringed it was before then!

[POMMReg]

Have you looked for the chassis number stamped into the b/head?

Think it's next to the o/s/f shock absorber on MMs(?).

Done a bit of digging, apparently last "Lowlight" was 83389, so it
points to the chassis plate being wrong. We know the body nos
is from a different vehicle, so chances are the chassis plate is too!

I know next to nothing about this model, but you could look for
an NMP plate - n/s/f of engine bay floor under the bumper iron(?).

Chris
MINOReg Historian

[FrankM83]

So found this after some paint stripping! looks like SMM 26000 ??

[frame][/frame]

[POMMReg]

So, mid 1949?

As I said, know very little about these - but 26000 does sound better
than that quoted on the chassis plate!

So, too early for prog body nos, you'd probably just have a Cowley
plate - may be worth taking the silly 4dr body nos id plates off to
see what primer is visible underneath(?).

Chris.Stevens
MINOReg Historian (allegedly)

[FrankM83]

Chris,

the plate cam in a folder, the engine bay is mostly striped of paint as it's an abandoned resto project, so no primer is left but when I looked where the plate should go, where later cars take the body no plate there are 2 holes which fit the bmf plate I was given and the body number plate has no obvious place it was fitted to, so maybe I was given this plate by mistake, there seem to be missing a plate on the bulkhead crossmember tho behined the engine,

do you know anything about BMF plates?

Thanks for all your help