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[Blair]

Hey Team,

 

I'm trying to get a hatch on the road here in NZ, however the car has never been registered here and I have no details of who owned it in Aus. I've looking up the vin using websites in Aus but no luck. Vin number and chassis number as follows:

 

Vin - 8H77LH J622256C

Body - AUC01780M

 

Does anyone have a way to lookup where it was last registered or advice on how to track down last owner in Aus?

 

Thanks 

[Bigfella237]

That "VIN" will (or at least should) mean absolutely nothing to registration authorities, it's not an ISO VIN, which was required on cars from around 1989 onward.

 

Prior to that, cars had only a chassis number used by authorities to identify the vehicle, which should be stamped onto the car and duplicated on the Compliance Plate.

 

"AUC01780M" would be your chassis number (not your body number) except that you're missing a digit in there somewhere.

 

It should be 3 letters, followed by 6 numbers, followed by 1 letter.

 

If you get the correct chassis number and check again you might have better luck?

[Blair]

Thanks

 

AUC017480M is the chassis number. Is there a central data base that would have records of this car being on the road? I know that Aus does it by state, however its unknown what state this car was in. I do know NT have no records haha. 

[hanra]

Would that chassis number be for a UC not an LX? 

[Blair]

Yip its a UC

[Bruiser]

I checked my rego papers (South Australia) for my 2005 workvan this morning, convinced
that all my previous cars had "vin not recorded" printed there
Vin was on van papers though, our states seem to be generally pretty
disconnected in a lot of ways, but maybe the 1989 thing is
across the board.

You might be luckier if you have an engine number or rego plate

Suppose you would have tried that already, though

[Bigfella237]

~ our states seem to be generally pretty disconnected in a lot of ways, but maybe the 1989 thing is across the board. ~

 

"ISO VIN" stands for International Standards Organisation Vehicle Identification Number.

 

It's a global numbering system adopted by pretty much all countries around world at the end of the 80's, so it's not just an Australian thing.

 

Unfortunately a lot of people confuse this with a manufacturer's vehicle identification number, which is not a legal identifier, it's just an internal means of keeping track of what got built, when it got built, and how it got built.

 

And there was no universal nomenclature for the older chassis numbers (pre-1989) whatsoever, each manufacturer just made them up as they went along.

[Blair]

Does anyone know if all hatches had the chassis number stamped into frame or was it just the UCs and SS versions?

[S pack]

Every Torana left the assembly plant with a stamped chassis number.