![]() ![]() It was the basis of the car to which a coachbuilder added a body, which sometimes got replaced or modified in the course of the car's life. So in a way, it's almost the reverse of how it worked in the early days when the car-maker usually built the rolling chassis, the engine, and transmission, and so the engine number and chassis number identified the vehicle. ![]() The body number under the bonnet is Pressed Steel's serial number for the monocoque unit that it supplied to Rover as one piece. 1956 Land Rover Series 1 57 Model Chassis number the details below, Original RHD 88 example supplied to the military when new. Am I right in guessing that the chassis number on the A-pillar plate is Rover's number for the car as a whole? This is the equivalent of any other manufacturer's body or chassis number and the number that the vehicle registration authorities are interested in. Most other monocoque cars that I'm familiar with, regardless of whether or not they had a separate front subframe, had one number and the manufacturer called it either a chassis number OR a body number.īut I think I get it now. It never made sense to me that a car with no chassis has a body number and a chassis number.
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