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Matching Numbers
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 11:56 am
by 66gt
Is there such a thing called "matching numbers" with a Cortina? I could not for the life of me and thinking I would know it answer his question.
Is there such a thing? Enquiring minds want to know.
Steve
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:17 pm
by peteleo
Steve,
Regarding your Cortina MK1? Matching #s would be the I.D. tag # and #
scratched on the R/H top mount. Engine # doesn't relate to the I.D. It
does on most American cars.
Pete
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 2:07 pm
by 66gt
Thanks Pete....I thought so!
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 11:23 am
by Brett Wilkie
That's odd that Ford doesn't do that on the Cortina and I wonder why they stopped doing it?? On the 100e series all the engine blocks are engraved with the chassis numbers but more often than not they won't match because the engines are so frequently changed.
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 12:25 pm
by JAN
Around 1961 or 1962 Fords changed the system. The Chassis Numbers became more like modern VIN numbers and gave a lot more information than previously: building plant and date of manufacture amongst others. This was no longer applicable to the engines, so the two became divorced. Early 105Es used the previous system, and the last 100Es used the later one.
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 2:00 pm
by angliagt
I got into an argument with the DMV clerk,
when she said that the ID number on our 105E -
(105E126316) couldn't be right.
- Doug
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 4:56 pm
by peteleo
Doug,
What was wrong with that ID #. Pete
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:11 pm
by angliagt
It was an engine number,so it looked to short
to be right to her.
- Doug