Finding out the original specification

TGJR · Apr 30, 2012

I have recently bought a series 3 with a station wagon hard top on it but evidence of having had a tailgate in its life.

Is there any way, perhaps from the chassis number, of finding out if it was originally a soft top, pick-up cab or what?

Thanks.

crashbox · Apr 30, 2012

Have you contacted DVLA?

TGJR · Apr 30, 2012

crashbox said:
Have you contacted DVLA?

No. Will they be able to tell me?

johnny curt 1 · Apr 30, 2012

telephone these people from this website they helped me a lot with my series landy history

Heritage Motor Centre Motor Museum, Gaydon

if you want written bulletproof evidence of how it left solihull itll cost yer £40 from these plus p+p but worth evry penny in my opinion

hope this helps

TGJR · May 1, 2012

johnny curt 1 said:
telephone these people from this website they helped me a lot with my series landy history

Heritage Motor Centre Motor Museum, Gaydon

if you want written bulletproof evidence of how it left solihull itll cost yer £40 from these plus p+p but worth evry penny in my opinion

hope this helps

Thank you for this - I'll give them a try.

22900013a · May 1, 2012

There is no way to know exactly what it was built as unless you find the build card - these went out with the vehicle, often hidden behind the dash or centre windscreen strip. Sometimes they were shoved in the tub reinforcing strips under the rear floor. Usually they have long since rotted away by now though.
The info from Gaydon will tell you the build colour, engine type, and build date as well as where the vehicle was dispatched to (usually a dealership). As the body specifications were not recorded by the factory for each individual vehicle it is not possible to get the info from them. The chassis number will reveal if the vehicle was a utility (van, pickup, soft top) or a station wagon though, at least until the unified chassis sequences came in in the mid-1970s.

TGJR · May 2, 2012

22900013a said:
There is no way to know exactly what it was built as unless you find the build card - these went out with the vehicle, often hidden behind the dash or centre windscreen strip. Sometimes they were shoved in the tub reinforcing strips under the rear floor. Usually they have long since rotted away by now though.
The info from Gaydon will tell you the build colour, engine type, and build date as well as where the vehicle was dispatched to (usually a dealership). As the body specifications were not recorded by the factory for each individual vehicle it is not possible to get the info from them. The chassis number will reveal if the vehicle was a utility (van, pickup, soft top) or a station wagon though, at least until the unified chassis sequences came in in the mid-1970s.

Sounds like a British Leyland procedure - hide the build card in one of several places on the car!! Quite amusing really.

From the chassis number I know it was not a SW so either a soft top or pick-up going on the tailgate evidence. I suspect the latter as there is no rope hook towards the front (above fuel filler cap) which I believe a soft top would have had.

22900013a · May 2, 2012

The 3/4 tilt would have fitting on the body capping just behind the truck cab, but a full tilt wouldn't. A plain truck cab probably wouldn't either, but may well have had fittings on the back end. It could also have been a hardtop with a split rear door. My factory hardtop has the U shaped loops on the rearmost panels even though it was built as a van!

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