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Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra
Original US registration number is USA W-3010491, if read correctly.
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Joe DeMarco added this info and shared a photo of Rod:
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Yes, that looks like the one that is up for auction.
Rod found the corresponding Serial Number 3856 stamped inside where the dataplate would have been.
He also reported the Brit WD Number from under the paint layers as T-25746.
His Lee would have been accepted at Chrysler in June 1942.
Counting heads, I think it would have been one of the last Chrysler Lees built with working doors.
It was shipped from the US and would have arrived in Australia before the end of 1942.
Rod was a tremendous source of info, although his texts were somewhat elusive as they were unpunctuated, stream of consciousness and peppered with Aussie slang. It took me a while to figure out that "dog's bowls" were ventilators.
Our friend Jim Goetz visited him.
Here's a photo. Rest in Peace, Rod.
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