The body number is the one on the plate welded to the LH strut tower. Your lucky its still there and you have the original compliance plate to match. These are often both missing these days and you have to get a new body number. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lachlan Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 22 March 2002 9:52 AM Subject: Locating body number - help
> I am about to get a Vicroads permit for an unregistered 1600 and need to > provide a body number. Can someone please advise which number I give as I > have discovered the following: > 1. Above the firewall in the middle of the car, just below the wiper grill > in the engine bay, there is a plate pop rivitted which states a body number > 6 digits long, there is no body number stamped directly into the body of the > car as has been with previous models I have owned. > 2. On the passenger side strut tower there is another metal plate which has > the same body number as the middle plate above. > 3. On the drivers side near where the front guard is mounted to the body of > the car, inside the engine bay there is a number P510M and 4 more digits. > > Is number 3 above the body number, because in all other datsuns I have owned > the P510 number is stamped into the body on the firewall bit and not down > near the front guard. I have no number stamped directly into the body on > the firewall bit just the metal plate. > > Should I just give the number which is on both the plates and not worry > about the P51 number? Could the P510 number be a chasis number as opposed > to a body number. > > Sorry it is so long, and thanks in advance for any help. > Lochie > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
