Re: Larry's 1951 Club Sedan Project

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2010/1/16 20:06:18

I wouldn't worry to much about the DMV registration, all states have their own, sometimes strange, procedures when the VN is missing, like the motor number, the TPN, or some even issue their own VN plate. In any case nothing thousands of vintage owners have been thru successfully before you. BUT it does beg the question why SO MANY VN and other number tags are missing - it's a shame as there is almost with certainly no real way to re-establish the original number unless you can get it from prior doucmentation or owners.

Your TPN puts you car squarely in the mid-1951 range, and that's all that can be established from it.

On the very few 1951 and newer RHD cars, the one thing I have observed, and this is only based on less than a handful of them, is that it's not unusual to find the TPN establish the body shell was from the prior year, perhaps an indication of how long it took, and what the factory's priority was, in doing RHD jobs.