<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Should you be wary about anomalies such as this? If you had ever been the owner of a car stolen from you then this would ring very loud warning bells. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>If the engine is meant to be original then look for the aluminium engine number plate riveted on a horizontal platform towards the front of the block. Has that gone missing as well? Then you go looking for paint colour oddities and because it is a 50 year old car there is guaranteed to be something. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>There can be 1001 good, honest reasons for the oddities with this motor but will you be thinking, in the back of your mind, that this was someone's pride and joy before it was taken and changed into what is seen before me. If you don't get it then some else will and does your inner voice say, 'Its a 50 odd year old car, there are bound to be some faults', or does it say, 'This car isn't right, stay well clear'.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Identifying plates do not normally fall off on their own and my 45
year old Sprite has them where they should be. It is not just the anomaly in the number it is the reason the anomaly has arisen that should be looked into.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Sorry to be so negative but as an owner who has had cars taken (yes, plural) it does bring things to the fore again.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Guy R Day </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;
background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Bob Spruck via Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Spridget list <Spridgets@autox.team.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 24 March 2015, 1:30<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Spridgets] VIN number issue<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv3585207165">
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<font size="+1"><font face="Arial">On a Bugeye I am interested in, I
have discovered an apparent anomaly in the year and VIN. The car
has no VIN plate but is considered to be a 1961 Mk1 and has been
registered in two states as such. However, the VIN is listed on
both registrations as AN5L xxxx. Since they made, what, 59,000
Bugeyes and ended in 1961, a car considered a '61 should have a
five digit number, somewhere approaching 59,000. If the four
digit number is correct, it should be, I expect, maybe a '59. <br>
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Is there any other place that the VIN appears? Or any other way
of determining the true VIN number or true year of manufacture?<br>
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Perhaps I should just leave well enough alone?<br>
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Bob Spruck<br>
Sharpsburg, GA <br>
<br>
'72 Midget<br>
'67 Midget Vintage Racer<br>
Maybe a '59 or '61 Bugeye<br>
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