plaque no.

can anyone tell me how to find out the plaque no. on my 78 1300 the car was originally green but has been red for many years before ive owned it so at some point must have been taken off and if possible where can i buy one.
many thanks
colm .D

hi if you got some service history try contacting previous owners they may know,i think the numbers were put on randomly so the chassis number may not be of any help via fiat....maybe it was owned by a previous member of this great club? cheers pete

thanks for the reply pete but unfortunately no history v5 states car was previously reg and or used outside of uk and ni prior to reg in ni and only says 1300 fiat on paper

well you could put reg number on here and see if anyone recognises it....is there a x1/9ownersclub sticker put on by previous owner? cant be that many in northern ireland

previous owner was a member but never actually had it runninig i bought it dismantled and in boxes reg is OJI 8440

well hopefully our irish friends will recognise it..... i wouldnt worry too much about the number i am sure you wouldnt be the first one with an un-original numbered plaque...could have 007 haha

Write to Bertone in Torino. Neil Yardley did that with FAG and they sent him new plaque no's for the wings. I don't know if they had them on record or if Neil already knew the number. FAG is sitting in my barn the noo having been purchased once again by Neil. Next time I'm down talking to the cars I'll try and take a photo of the plaque no.

Ewen

Ewen, That's quite interesting and me for one would like to know the same.

thanks for the tips guys as the car isn't original colour to match the original plaque no. i may go for petes idea think of a number any number.a pic of one up close would be great Ewen if possible but no rush i wouldn't want you fighting snow blizzards on my account, could we be on to something here if we knew the plaque numbers on club cars so as not to replicate them i or we could get plaque repros made up, it must be of great interest to the general public at the shows on all the really original cars. or would the club frown upon this idea.?

many thanks
colmD

The club produced replica plaques in the very early days and I think the ones which were left were given to members at one of the Butlins meetings. I have one of these for my car when I eventually get it finished. If you let me have your email address then I will dig it out, photograph it and send it to you, if it is of any help

In my early days in the club I tried to find any relation between the plaque number and the chassis number or any other relationship by looking at a number of original 1300s at shows, meetings etc. I came to the conclusion that they must have been put on at random. I was also told that neither Fiat or Bertone had any records of plaque numbers but I confess that I did not contact either myself. I believe that I was not the first one to try and fail at this.

Ian

Ian i heard the same thing back in about 1997 someone else had same problem and sure they contected fiat/bertone too and they said they were put on randomly....

If they were random then there might be 2 cars with the same number. The numbers had only 4 digits I think so that could be possible?? If they made sure that all cars had a different number then there must be a record :!:

What do u think?

yes random but only one set of each number made...

Not necessarily ... they print off the numbers & randomly distribute them :

Only one car per number, but who knows where :

Just a thought.

Hi Sharon

That is the way I understood it to have been done.

Ian