Chevrolet Data Plate Query

Bob Moseley (RIP) · #1 18-01-09, 12:41

Hi all - mate has a 1942 C60L. Although it should be scripted 28443 etc. on the chassis, this one is 28043 P00184. Could this be a mis-stamping or a rareity.

Bob

Keith Webb · #2 18-01-09, 17:22

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Originally Posted by Bob Moseley

Hi all - mate has a 1942 C60L. Although it should be scripted 28443 etc. on the chassis, this one is 28043 P00184. Could this be a mis-stamping or a rareity.

Bob

Hmmm looks like someone at the Perth GM-H factory made a mistake. I saw a chassis once where they had to overstamp a numeral to rectify a blunder.

David_Hayward (RIP) · #3 18-01-09, 18:56

Someone really did cock-up...too much tea that day perhaps?

These are all Perth-assembled:

2-8443-00132-P ASSEMBLED 9/8/1943
2-8443-00135-P ASSEMBLED 8/10/1943
2844300143P ENGINE # PR3,868,444 W.O.53 ASSEMBLED DECEMBER 8 1943
28043 P00184
28443P00223 ENGINE # PR3,883,068 ASSEMBLED DECEMBER 31 1943
28443P00260 ENGINE # PR3,875,505 WO82 ASSEMBLED 28 MARCH 1944
28443P00264 ENGINE # PR3,875,501 ASSEMBLED MAY 1944

You can see, in typical Holden Plant fashion, that the Plant Code letter was placed initially at the end of the serial number, then the stamping guy changed his mind or his colleague changed his mind or was told to place it after the model number. This dichotomy between locations etc. lasted until at least 1959.