Joined: 25 Apr 2007 Posts: 3441 Location: Melbourne Australia
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:02 pm Post subject:
Dazwaaah wrote:
oct '91 lollll
chasis number has alot of '0's in it lol
They made very few by the looks until October. Yours is the at the other end of th scale indeed!
So I guess we know who has one of the oldest cars in Australia.
(We have to organize that photo soon Daz.)
Joined: 25 Apr 2007 Posts: 3441 Location: Melbourne Australia
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:12 pm Post subject:
Dazwaaah wrote:
actually going by that i think its november... yeah that sounds right...
either way.. yep i love my colour, my shiney and clean headlights, and my 4 tail lights
You just won't let that go will you. I will have to pull my H/lights out, cook them in the oven and polish them inside and out......just to stop me from wanting to come over and steal your's.
....but I still got the leather that you lust over. MMMWWWHAAAAAAA!
Joined: 25 Apr 2007 Posts: 3441 Location: Melbourne Australia
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:56 pm Post subject:
rob_85 wrote:
March 97
The last production date of the JZS147, according to the info I have seen, is August 1997. Which means you are wining so far Rob. I can't see that too many people in Australia could beat that at the moment!
Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 4010 Location: Perth, WA
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:15 pm Post subject:
According to what the compliance place told me, this is how they get the build date:
It's really dodgy, but apparently it's the only way because it's not recorded anywhere officially.
1. Pull the front seatbelts all the way out (like, unwind) til they hit the end. On the end is a little tag stiched into the belt. It should have the year the seatbelt was made stamped on the tag.
2. Get dirty under the car and carefully inspect the brake lines. Assuming they are original, the manufacture month (but not the year) of the brake lines are stamped onto them.
They then combine this to say car X was made in August of 95 or whatever.
It does not account for how long said seatbelt or brake line was sitting in storage before being put on the car... or whether the parts were changed at any point.
Apparently it's the best they can do though.. The only more accurate way is for us to all post up our chassis numbers and arrange them in chronological order so people can get a graph and know more precisely when theirs was built.
Edit: Or use the one that was just posted ^^
Hope that helps!
Perhaps another compliance shop has figured out a better way of doing it? _________________
1994 Black JZS147 Aristo - RIP. Went swimming
New 1992 Aristo Project
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