Joe,
The chassis number you mentioned would put it in the 1949 series - Is it a
flat-rad? # 2899 would make it a 1954 model...
Hope this helps -
Tony
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> From: "DeLuca, Joseph" <Joseph.DeLuca@wl.com>
> Reply-To: "DeLuca, Joseph" <Joseph.DeLuca@wl.com>
> Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 20:55:27 -0400
> To: "'Morgans'" <morgans@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Tracking down an old Morgan...
>
> I received a plea for help for a new Morgan owner who wants to
> find out the model-year of his car.
>
> Charles Ingersoll acquired an early Plus Four that had been in
> storage for many years in Pennsylvania, but has no title.
>
> It is a Triumph-motored, twin-spare and he believes it to be in
> the 1955-59 range. We think the chassis number is 1899.
> He found that number "in the engine compartment right below
> the windshield", presumably referring to the chassis number
> stamped on the bonnet hinge. The motor serial is TS-828-FR.
>
> I no longer have my book with years and serials, but Tony
> McLaughlin's registry seems to show all the Plus-4's serials
> of the 1955-59 time period to be in the 3000 range.
>
> Can anyone tell us what year chassis #1899 was built???
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe DeLuca
> Ledgewood, NJ
> '62 yellow 4/4 competition model
> Morgan 3/4 Group, USA
>
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