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[N/A-PWR]

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[dattoman]

What about the other 2 tags ?

[Bigfella237]

Hmm, not much you can do, as far as the authorities are concerned, the number stamped on the chassis is the identifier, even if it is wrong.

 

You are not supposed to re-stamp chassis numbers, so even if you were to replace that panel with a blank panel you would technically need to be issued a police number, which won't match your compliance plate anyway.

 

But what you're supposed to do and what actually happens are two different things, as evidenced above.

 

I think the written-off vehicle register only records the details of vehicles that are not more than 16 years old so no Torana would ever have been on it anyway, even if it was worth $200K, which sounds stupid to me.

[hanra]

What month was the LX model released? That seems like quite an early car?

[S pack]

You've searched NSW RTA rego records and come up with no previous history (presume you searched using the ALX chassis numnber) of your car so next step would be search Qld and Vic records.

 

Back in the 80's and 90's a lot of written off and stolen vehicles from Qld ended up rebirthed or repaired and for sale in Sydney.

[MRGMH]

Sorry to dig up old thread.

 

I have a question about the ADR tag.

 

Is there anyway to know if the ADR tag i have matches my VIN tag?

 

And what does the (A) stand for in LX TORANA COUPE A on ADR tag?

 

Any help would be great!!

[dattoman]

Mines 4/76 and its chassis ALX007490M

So yours would be a month or so before

 

Should go something like this

8D77TFJ519256X

[Bigfella237]

The (skinny) VIN plate and Body plate have nothing to do with registration, however if you want to supply Holden with the VIN for the letter, yours should* have been

 

8D77TF J519256X

 

* based on your body plate details. But Holden cannot 'look up' your car anyway, they will simply decode the VIN you supply and use the details on the body plate to type-up a virtually meaningless letter.

 

Also, this VIN is not the one that your rego authority will recognise; a Torana is too old to have an ISO 17-digit VIN so you would supply them with the chassis number instead.

 

The stamped chassis number is the legal identifier, so you can register a car without a compliance plate providing it has been previously registered in Australia (and you can prove that it has been previously registered).

 

But please don't take our word for anything, you need to take all the info into a motor registry and confirm with them before investing any more of your hard-earned $, also try to get their ruling in printed form, they should be able to provide you with a copy of the relevant regulation. There is some information from your QLD Dept of Transport here:

 

http://www.tmr.qld.g...complianceplate

 

Based on your chassis number, I'm confident the compliance date would have been 03/76 but again, if your rego authority can look up the previous registration they will have those details on hand.

 

In conclusion I would say you should try very hard to find the missing plates, from a resale prospective most buyers will be apprehensive about paying decent money for a car with missing plates.

[Statler]

Andrew is spot on.

All you need is a viasble chassis #. 

 

Another hatch in Mackay? They are coming out of the woodwork. 

[Bigfella237]

Please don't confuse "Body Number" with "Chassis Number" as the two are totally different.

 

First the Compliance Plate, the stamped chassis number should match the compliance plate (the one with the ADRs on it), so far so good.

 

ADR 9 on auto vehicles was dropped after the end of ALX... chassis numbers (01 July 1976), instead auto vehicles were thereafter denoted by a capital "A" after the description, for example "LX TORANA SEDAN  A" for auto and simply "LX TORANA SEDAN" for manual vehicles.

 

The numerical part of the VIN Plate matches the body number on the Body Plate and the sequence of both the chassis number and body number seem to line up, although this is not an exact science as some bodies appear to have been held up on the line and were slightly out of sequence, but yours is pretty much where I'd expect it to be.

 

The problem is, even though the body numbers match, your VIN tag says "S" and your Body Plate says "SL/R"?

 

The "L" in the VIN agrees with the "L20" on the Body Plate so assuming you've transcribed everything correctly, I can only say that it must be either a mis-stamp from the factory or somebody has been playing silly buggers?

 

P.S. Was there ever such a thing as an automatic SL/R?

Edited by Bigfella237, 27 July 2016 - 12:24 AM.

[Bigfella237]

As I mentioned above, I've never heard of an automatic SL/R before, not to say there weren't any, but they must be rare if they exist(ed)? So it's possible the Body Plate has the mis-stamp and the car was actually an "S" model?

 

Maybe post up some pictures of the vehicle, I'm sure the eagle-eyed here will soon tell if it's really an SL/R?

[Ice]

As I mentioned above, I've never heard of an automatic SL/R before, not to say there weren't any, but they must be rare if they exist(ed)? So it's possible the Body Plate has the mis-stamp and the car was actually an "S" model?
 
Maybe post up some pictures of the vehicle, I'm sure the eagle-eyed here will soon tell if it's really an SL/R?

One of my mate has 1976 SLR 5000 in Papaya and it a factory auto tags says L31 M40

[Statler]

Automatic trans was not available to LH SLR5000's

Check details below:

 

SL/R variations included the choice of 3.3-litre six-cylinder engines, 4.2 or 5.0-litre V8s. Automatic transmission was not initially available to SL/R5000 buyers but that changed with the arrival in 1976 of the LX model upgrade.

Don't believe everything that you read. 

[dattoman]

If it has no tags... there's no way to tell its an SS

Unless someone's recorded that body # against a set of tags previously