Chassis plate help!

[Lewis22]

Hi all,

I am looking for somewhere/someone who can stamp a chassis number onto a metal plate for me.

Sadly my 2.8i is rotten and beyond saving. After many months of searching, I have sourced a decent shell now and just need help finding someone to do this. The body shop that my new shell will be going to get sprayed and done up said that they can just weld the new plate onto the new shell.

Furthermore, I’m after someone who can do the genuine Ford style tooling on the letters and numbers so it looks original etc.

Again, it’s for an early 2.8i and is the type where the chassis number is located under the flap of the carpet and on the floor of the shell.

Many thanks!

[Andrew 2.8i]

Is that even legal?
I thought only new shells could be stamped, if you reshell a car using a previously registered bodyshell, then the car will have to be registered on a Q plate?
Admittedly, the rules may have changed since I last looked at them.

Regards,
Andrew.

[Peter-S]

I'm inclined to agree with Andrew. Chassis details are not interchangeable. Presumably you could transfer the old registration to the new shell unless the the new one is older than the original.

[nemo]

'm inclined to agree with Andrew. Chassis details are not interchangeable.

Me too. I know there`s no theft involved but you are basically creating a `ringer`?

[andyd]

'm inclined to agree with Andrew. Chassis details are not interchangeable.

Me too. I know there`s no theft involved but you are basically creating a `ringer`?

[Major_Tom]

You'd know it wouldn't be the old shell either... so why bother if you're keeping hold of the car? Just change all the good stuff over and swap the reg.

Having said that if something catastrophic happened to mine, I'd make a new, different car, not a facsimile of my old one.. let it die. It would never be the old car, why pretend

[Mc Tool]

Dodgy.
Best way if you have to is to cut the steel plate surrounding the number you want out of the donor and weld it in to the recipient . Take as much metal as you can so the weld isn't close to the number ( they ain't stupid )
Honestly , I would do it legit ,might cost more and be more arsing about but do it right now will save you grief further down the line
#uck , I'm sounding like my Father

[Major_Tom]

Dodgy.
Best way if you have to is to cut the steel plate surrounding the number you want out of the donor and weld it in to the recipient . Take as much metal as you can so the weld isn't close to the number ( they ain't stupid )
Honestly , I would do it legit ,might cost more and be more arsing about but do it right now will save you grief further down the line
#uck , I'm sounding like my Father

I was thinking that'd be the best way too. But then, in my head, it was getting silly, like cutting off all the donor's good bits, like the skeleton of a leaf, and welding in every original bit into the recipient, which would mean cutting away all the corresponding bits, like one huge 3D puzzle piece, to keep the chassis nearly all the original and then still "the car" and welding it all together.

[Mc Tool]

Yeah , sometimes it's hard to know when to stop (no one springs to mind ) specially if its only in your head ....but ya gotta do something when you can't sleep

[Major_Tom]

I recently had a day dream where I was short of fuel, so tethered the Capri to an orbital satellite, then sat stationary on the planet surface as the earth revolved underneath me, creating the illusion of movement and saving petrol.

[Paul G]

Sometimes, one has to help one's self. I'm making no further comment!

[Mc Tool]

I recently had a day dream where I was short of fuel, so tethered the Capri to an orbital satellite, then sat stationary on the planet surface as the earth revolved underneath me, creating the illusion of movement and saving petrol.

Well apart from the satellite it aint so far amiss . Things having mass an all and F=ma ,and that Newton guy, every time you give Capri a decent kick in the guts it must effect the earths rotation and tip it off it axis , its true ..... This has actually started to happen but due to a world wide conspiracy we are being told its " magnetic " north