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G'Day,
hoping that someone may answer this.
How many Manual premiers were built. I thought between 120 and 140
Next question, compliance plate number is 559 but chassis number is 11994
am i correct in saying that chassis number was the number of EH holdens and the compliance is the number of the model?
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Chassis numbers start at EH1001. This is for each assembly plant M S A B P Melbourne Sydney Adelaide Brisbane Perth. Only a complete car ready to drive gets a chassis number, ready for registration.
The 'compliance plate' is only a Body Build plate. The Body styles of each type start at 1. So for example an EH Special manual sedan started at EH225M-1M with the last letter being the body plant Melbourne Sydney Adelaide. A body is just the shell. Engine size is not part of the description. The body plate is just a part number.
Anyway back to the original question. I estimate about 500 Manual Premier wagons were made, and about 800 manual Premier sedans were made. This is based on the highest body build numbers I have seen for each body plant.
So not common, but not really rare. The actual body shell for a Premier only has a couple holes for a Premier badge on the C pillar for a sedan, so not any more desirable than a Special manual for modified cars.
An Auto Special sedan shell is more desirable than a manual Premier shell. Hey I wrecked a Manual Premier sedan a few years ago, and the only unique thing I could find was the Manual console. The shape of the floor makes the console a different shape. The rest was scrapped. |
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Originally posted by peter_flane
Hey I wrecked a Manual Premier sedan a few years ago, and the only unique thing I could find was the Manual console. The shape of the floor makes the console a different shape.
The only other unique item would be the white gearlever knob. The automatic white knob has a different (smaller diameter) thread. Dr Terry |
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Would a manual Premier have the reinforcing plate under the floor to accomodate the inner mounting bolts for the Premier bucket seats? If so this could be a different shape to one fitted to an automatic shell and it would also be another point of difference between Special and Premier manual shells.
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