[Healeys] VIN plate

[Carr&Edwards]

My '54 BN1 (BN1L221626) has the vehicle ID plate -- with car and engine # --
in the engine compartment, at the top of the firewall on the passenger side,
next to the body # plate.

Sarah Carr
BN1 in PA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "WILLIAM B LAWRENCE" <ynotink at msn.com>
To: <scvc70 at epix.net>; <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] VIN plate


> Sarah,
>
> The full VIN on the BN1s, at least the early ones, was located on a 
> plastic plate about the size of a business card that was screwed onto the 
> kick panel (on top of the trim) on the interior of the car. Since the 
> interior trim of these cars was always susceptible to weather damage and 
> thus to being replaced with everything from concours quality replacements 
> to lime green shag carpet, the true VIN plate is pretty much sure to be 
> missing from any non-original car. Fortunately there was a back-up plate 
> on the chassis that shows the numbers only. 14XXXX as opposed to 
> BN1-L/14XXXX. This is explained and a drawing of the plate is shown in 
> Roger Moment and Gary Anderson's book.
>
> Bill Lawrence
> BN1 # 554