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[Pat Marshall]

Interesting. My 1494 non-a/c does not have a body tag.

It's possible that the bodies when stamped were all the same and that some were earmarked for A/C later conversion with a body tag. There is no information that the tags were some kind of serial number.

Mark, I'd really like to know the number of your tag. Is it possible to do a rubbing, like genealogists do to retrieve illegible information from a tombstone?

I checked my data bases and all of the cars for which we have reported body tags are A/C cars. The last car that I have a reported body tag is 3400 with tag #1317AC. (The first official 1957 was 3418)

I'm also asking Forum members who have non-A/C II's before #3418, if they have body tags?

[awags]

Pat,
3400 is my car. Since it was brought up this may or may not be relevant but 3400 is a 56 and does not have the nostrils. Seemed interesting I guess.
It has the DSO 57 engine and transmission which I always assumed was the reason.

[Pat Marshall]

But it does have the body tag, right?

This gets interestinger and interestinger. I could conjour up scenarios of how that could happen. Such as, the body was tagged for A/C before Continental dropped the nostrils? Quien sabe?

[Mark Norris]

Hi Pat - a pencil rubbing didn't work so I've carefully chipped the paint off the numerals. It is still very difficult to read. In the flesh it looks like four digits reading 1009.

The 1 and the 0 are clear, the second 0 and the 9 are more questionable. However if you then look again at the painted tag photo 1009 makes a lot of sense.

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If 3400 has a body tag of 1317 then thats 2083 apart. Mine is 3186 and if the body tag is 1009 then thats 2077 apart. Obviously the body shop and chassis won't match up as I assume the bodies were sent to the assembly shop in batches.

Having said that I have some photos of the near perfectly restored 1623 and that has body tag 176AC.

Are there two small screw holes in your fire wall somewhere between the battery rack and the booster approx. 2-1/4" apart? The body tag positions seem to vary from being level with the bottom of the battery rack to be level with the top of the battery rack.

[Mark II Seeker]

Pat,

I no longer have the car (2897) but it did have a body tag 896 on the firewall and it is a non A/C car. I can't find the thread that I sent to you back in the day when you were asking about engine number and body tag.