11-07-2019, 03:56 PM
Mark R......."I just look through the chassis register noting the gap between engine and chassis numbers which increases as the production run moves forward."
To be hyper-nit-picking, this isn't completely infallible. My early 1933 RP still has its original engine, as confirmed by its first log book, but the engine number is actually 209 lower than the chassis number.
I assume that my engine had been taken off the line for rectification a couple of weeks earlier and was returned for installation out of sequence. If so, they did a good job, as it now has over a quarter of a million miles behind it.
To be hyper-nit-picking, this isn't completely infallible. My early 1933 RP still has its original engine, as confirmed by its first log book, but the engine number is actually 209 lower than the chassis number.
I assume that my engine had been taken off the line for rectification a couple of weeks earlier and was returned for installation out of sequence. If so, they did a good job, as it now has over a quarter of a million miles behind it.