Hi all,

I recently read a post on a forum where someone was looking for a part for a restoration and they were after a specific date code stamped on the item as they were obviously dead set about having everything 100% correct for the restoration.

I have seen and heard of this plenty of times before but I got to thinking that just because your car is a March 69 build (random example) it wouldn't necessarily only have parts stamped with that date on them.

I am thinking that most parts like steering boxes, steering arms, GTS rims etc would be produced in batches and then fitted to the vehicles as required so it is more than likely they were produced a few months or so before the vehicle and therefore would not normally match the build date of the vehicle.

Am I correct in my thinking or are there certain parts that always had the same build date as the vehicle and are worth the effort to match up when restoring a vehicle.

Just for the record, I have no intention of going down this route myself as I'm happy to have a car that simply looks original even if the parts are reproductions. 99% of the general public wouldn't know anyway.