paulg wrote:
I just went into the shed i sanded that channel no numbers are present and the bulkhead only has one of those pressed dips on the rh side the lh side does not
That narrows it down a bit more!
No numbers in the channel points to a 850/998 van.
The single pressed dip points a wind up window van.
I'm thinking somewhere between May 65 and Feb 69. (yeah I know, a lot of help that is but I'm working on it!)
Now Goldbrocade_62 thinks it has the later wiper motor and that was changed in mid 68.
So that narrows it to mid 68 and feb 69 and that is looking better!
Looking at a photo of a handbook and van number 6072 was sold 3/6/68 so your van is after that date.
At this stage I would guess that it is very late 68 or early 69. (probably the later)
The prefix for your van should be YJBAV2R and the car number 7887.
The engine prefix would have been 9YE/U/H and somewhere around the 4750 number.