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I am workng on a restoration of a T2 car with a strange body number. I have paperwork and import data on the car since it entered the US in 1969 that looks and tracks OK. A receipt for a replacement SC engine from Stoddard in 1969 when the original 1300S was stolen while in us conversion on the docks in NJ. I bought the car from the owner who bought it in Germany in 69 and have a good history from him. I requested the COA from the archive a few weeks ago. The Museum's reply was two lines long and said the car was re bodied to a T-5 in 1961. Oh boy. Here we go.
In disassembly now, I have hood, deck lid, passengers door, bumpers that have matching paint shop 3 digit stamps. Instruments and electrical dates are correct . The rest of the body has the same original paint color under the carpet and dash. The original paint is on all the sheet metal except the drivers door. The only strange thing it has an un numbered T-1 drivers door, and indications of a poor repair to the drivers longitudinal. The rest of the car is straight and sound with no evidence on any repairs or accidents. Looks like is slid into a rock and had the repair and door fixed. The car was re sprayed red with this topcoat over a primed drivers door. And the original paint.
From my disassembly and research I have the entire complete body, but the archive says it was replaced. It looks like a complete car and no evidence of replaced chassis.
Before I go to media blast, does anyone know what the factory would have done with a old replaced body? I have what appears to be a complete T-2 car. It had body mounted fog lights and a roll bar in the past, a repair on the drivers door, but the rest of the car appears to be original and intact.
The only re bodies I have seen in the past were big roll over or totals. The only re body I have seen was a 61 Dratz roadster with a T-6 body and a 9 digit replacement body number mine has 4.
Your thoughts and comments please. Do I have a car made by the guy that took home one part a day, until he had a complete one? Anyone know how Reutter disposed of the old used body parts
In disassembly now, I have hood, deck lid, passengers door, bumpers that have matching paint shop 3 digit stamps. Instruments and electrical dates are correct . The rest of the body has the same original paint color under the carpet and dash. The original paint is on all the sheet metal except the drivers door. The only strange thing it has an un numbered T-1 drivers door, and indications of a poor repair to the drivers longitudinal. The rest of the car is straight and sound with no evidence on any repairs or accidents. Looks like is slid into a rock and had the repair and door fixed. The car was re sprayed red with this topcoat over a primed drivers door. And the original paint.
From my disassembly and research I have the entire complete body, but the archive says it was replaced. It looks like a complete car and no evidence of replaced chassis.
Before I go to media blast, does anyone know what the factory would have done with a old replaced body? I have what appears to be a complete T-2 car. It had body mounted fog lights and a roll bar in the past, a repair on the drivers door, but the rest of the car appears to be original and intact.
The only re bodies I have seen in the past were big roll over or totals. The only re body I have seen was a 61 Dratz roadster with a T-6 body and a 9 digit replacement body number mine has 4.
Your thoughts and comments please. Do I have a car made by the guy that took home one part a day, until he had a complete one? Anyone know how Reutter disposed of the old used body parts
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