Morris Minor Owners Club

Is paying £60 for a Heritage certificate the only way to find out exactly when my car was manufactured?

No, you can go to the Gaydon Heritage centre and look it up in the ledgers yourself. The date of first registration is not usually that far away from the build date; just depends on how accurate you want to be. With the production trace, you get the exact days on which the car was built - note that it could be over three days, none of this modern 59 minutes to build a mini!

Thanks, would make a good day out too.

Also, you will find out where the vehicle was dispatched to and which dealer sold the car. Other useful numbers such as gearbox and back axle numbers are sometimes recorded and the original colour too. Worth a day out anyway to go to Gaydon to have a look around

brucek wrote:Also, you will find out where the vehicle was dispatched to and which dealer sold the car. Other useful numbers such as gearbox and back axle numbers are sometimes recorded and the original colour too. Worth a day out anyway to go to Gaydon to have a look around

That's useful to know. My car has a Stewart Arden plaque on the bulkhead, but I know the gearbox is not original as I can see ribbed casing and my engine is a 948.

Suggest you give them a ring first to make sure they're not "housekeeping". Sometimes they do a tidy up and on these days the logs are not available - also if you know the rough /month/year they can get the them out for you to save time.

http://www.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk/

ASL642 wrote:Suggest you give them a ring first to make sure they're not "housekeeping". Sometimes they do a tidy up and on these days the logs are not available - also if you know the rough /month/year they can get the them out for you to save time.

http://www.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk/

Thanks, good tip! Cheers.

Quote the chassis number STAMPED into the bodyshell.

POMMReg wrote:Quote the chassis number STAMPED into the bodyshell.

OK, thanks.