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[REDA9X]

IT COULD HAVE EASILY HAD A CHASSIS RAIL REPLACED

for sure,but should of been reregistered one way or another,a police number issued,you carn,t just use another cars i.d and not be detected, if it is done legitimatly.

How many cars though have had a front ender, gone to the panel shop, they've cut the rail from another car and sent it on it's way. As long as it's been registered in the same state the whole time it would probably never get picked up.

[REDA9X]

yes your right in modern times,
but around ten years or so ago at rego time in n.s.w,they had to check chassis numbers for a 12 month period,i guess to catch out vehicles with incorrect chassis numbers.
i guess if a car was stolen and recovered the insurance company would have some issues in paying.

back to this car, have we got a chassis number to see if there was a small mistake from factory
or is it not what it seems,would hate someone to spend big coin on it,no engine as well.
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I've only ever had the RTA require a chassis number check 3 times in the last 25 years. Once when I first bought my SS as it had been regoed in VIC and I'd bought the car and handed in the plates, it required a full check over the pits. That was about 1990. When the car was later stolen and recovered and put back on the road over a year later (1993) it required a check at the RTA office. The car had been damaged at the front and they needed to check all the numbers, I had to sand back the fresh paint over the chassis number to prove nothing was wrong which really annoyed me after waiting a year. The next time was in about 2001 when I finally registered the A9X after having owned it 6 years. I bought it in QLD and did all the required stolen and REVS checks in NSW and QLD. In 2001 they required me to do it all again for some strange reason, then it had to go to get a blue slip where all the numbers were rechecked, but it didnt have an RTA inspection. Since then it's been a simple trip to get a pink slip each year where they usually check the sericeability of the car more than anything else. I could have easily smashed it repaired it and the RTA would be none the wiser and if the chassis number was changed it would probably not be picked up till the car was sold. I've looked at plenty of cars, including A9X's that have had that rail replaced and retained the number of the car it was taken from with no police numbers or any other changes.

[enderwigginau]

Easily wouldn't be the term I'd use for a rail replacement, and it would be automatically apparent, even to the uninitiated that the work had been done. �A registered vehicle (esp. in NSW) is, and always has had, to have an inspection when the area containing the chassis number has needed replacing - as someone stated, it is integral to the identity of the vehicle.

I know the rigmarole we had to go through when a VB Commonwhore we had was found to have an S on the end of the chassis number, and had never been registered with the extra alpha- on the papers. �Never had a front-ender either.

If it is evident that a chassis rail has been replaced, then I would accept that it just needs to be sorted, but if the chassis rail seems to be the original item, then that would indicate a reshell. �That's not to say there is an issue in this case.

Let's see the chassis number for this vehicle - if not consistent then some good pics of the rail and surrounding area. �If again no joy, then I'd be checking that chassis number with the RTA to ensure there is no "correct" vehicle with this number. �Then investigate how you would need to go about registration. �Transport up here allows it - many other Transport authorities do not.

Grant..

[V-SLR5000-P]

Nik, there are a number of reasons your car could have been issued a police number, such as accident damage or original number tampered with due to theft. This is a whole lot better than the unexplained chassis number of an unrelated vehicle. There have been many SLR5000s issued police numbers in the course of 30+ years, including mine. If your police number follows the numbering pattern of Victoria Police the first two digits are the year the number was issued, yours maybe 1998? As you have experienced it is now more difficult to satisfy buyers that the car is legitimate, but as Toranavista said, it doesn't look like the tags have been removed. We have all seen tags that have been roughly removed and put back with the nearest pop rivets or a handy self tapper. Your car also has other features suggesting an SLR5000.
In my view a police number is not the kiss of death reducing the value of your car to an equivalent mock up. The value/price of the car will be negatively affected to some extent as buyers will make their own call based on what they see. It may help if you can document the issue of a police number through a letter from the registration authority and past owners.