Could this be a sandman - Chassis swap

[hainzy]

dont beat yourself up Hainzy... it ALL boils down to who you have on your doorstep on the day and what they want to pay. All of the estimates quoted on this thread are exactly that.. opinions and estimates. Value is determined between the seller and the buyer on the day. Its well possible that someone will pay more for a non-matching #'s optioned 308 with T400 than they would for a matching numbers 253 4-speed

Yeah its cool. Im not that stressed about it. I got good cash for it and put an EFI 304 in my VH SL/E... And as these 22 pages and others have shown theres a million what-ifs... I dont mind having an incorrect engine at least, as if it puts a piston through the block, you havent just taken 5 grand value from your car. You just get another engine...

[mauser]

lots 'n lots of them dont have the right engine and unless you have the origional documents who would even know. We know that the number range can be determined and you can spend your life hunting blocks and get close.

Back in the eighties I blew the 308 in the SLR5000 racing my mates XC on the way to Batherst. The go then for penniless people was to roll the car into an engine reconditioner and pick it up in the arvo. Thousand skins and you were back on the road, all sweet.

I guess unless it was special like an L34 moter any reco'ed L31 was the same to most people then. As these motors hardly last 40 years if driven and most of these cars were not shedded with an eye to keeping them... I would imagine most would of been swapped at some stage whatever the sellers tells you.


Mauser

[HK1837]

Problem today is it isn't that hard in many cases to find the original engine number, or at least the one that was in the vehicle at the 1000kM service.