Andydodge Posted July 30, 2009 Report Posted July 30, 2009 A mate of mine here in Australia has just bought a 1974 Chrysler New Yorker Brougham 2Dr hardtop, 440/Auto, its probably the only one here in Australia.........the question is........Where is the engine number located?.......I am 500 kms from him and he has looked everywhere but can't find it........I looked in my 1968 Dodge/Plymouth service Manual under the 383/440 section and there is a pad on the block, under the distributor that has various engine spec info stamped on it........I suggested that this might be the place but it appears that he hasn't had much success as whilst he has been able to get the car registered today using a number that may have been the firing order(!!!), he still wants to find the engine number........I also suggested to him that I had heard that US cars stopped having engine numbers sometime in the 70's or 80's........can anyone shed some light on exactly where on a 1974 440 engine its number may live.......thanks, andyd Quote
dezeldoc Posted July 30, 2009 Report Posted July 30, 2009 on that pad and also the date is cast into the block on the driver side by the pan rail. Quote
PatS.... Posted July 30, 2009 Report Posted July 30, 2009 Hey Andy, any pics of the New Yorker?? Has it been converted to RHD? Quote
Andydodge Posted July 30, 2009 Author Report Posted July 30, 2009 Dezel & Pat, thanks for the replies, I will contact him again tomorrow(its thursday nite here at present) and mention the info, Pat its still LHD, as its over 30yrs old it can be registered without conversion now and as Brian, my mate is in a local car club in his area he can get"historic" rego enabling him to register it for a lot less......as an example both my 1940 Dodge Sedan & 1941 Plymouth Coupe both cost around $650.00 to register for road use, made up of $270.00 is government registration fees and $380.00 in compulsory third party personal liability insurance........this does not cover repairs to others or my vehicles.......this is more again......lol.....the problem with historic car rego is that technicaly the car can only be used on designated car runs, and "service" trips, not every day which is what I like to do with my cars, I regularly drive them to work and park them outside of the hobby shop I own, Scale Automobilia..........anyway I degress...........lol....will see if I can get some decent pics sent........andyd. Quote
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