Chassis Number on a MK1 Cortina - where is it located?

[M11rf]

Where is it?

I need to explain to a guy over the phone where it is so he can give it to me.

I would have thought the strut top - right?

[Mk 1 Mark]

Dont think it had one the strut top...Mine has`nt got one....

But its been restored...

All i have is the good old Chassis tag....

[M11rf]

Cheers...

 

Where is the chassis tag located mate, or is yours off the car?

[cortinaman]

The chasis plate should be on the innner wing near the battery tray.

 

The number would also have been stamped close to the strut top on the same side, but the chances of finding one which hasn't had the strut tops replaced is fairly slim.

 

As so many cortinas have been restored/patched up/modifed its not unusal to find no chasis plate or find it in a difference location.

 

Try this web-site for all sorts of useful things on Mk1 Cortinas:

 

 

http://freespace.virgin.net/tommy.sandham/databook.htm#Chassis%20Plate

[M11rf]

Cheers,,, that site is great

[V8ian]

certainlythere should be a vin plate on the offside front inner wing as well as another smaller plate, nothing unusual for them to be missing, There is a company stamping new ones but they need the log book, and Possibly the old plate, there should also be a stamped number on the offside strut top, but unless you are lucky and your car has not been plated, it will not be there.

[Rick]

didnt the old cortinas have it scratched into the paint on the strut top

[deluxemk1]

yeah thats right the drivers side inner wing around the top mount. As you say how many you seen with it still there though

[deluxemk1]

yeah thats right the drivers side inner wing around the top mount. As you say how many you seen with it still there though