I find worrying contradictions in your prose Alan !
Probably because you don't understand what I've written, or simply haven't read it properly.
SeanDezart said:
The chassis number has everything to do with 'it'. The chassis nuimber IS the identification.
How is that any different to what I've written?
I say again,
Factory-designated chassis numbers are non-transferable and unalterable. No exceptions.
When you state that "
the chassis number IS the identification", what do you mean by "
identification"? Apparently you believe that making changes to the car (like changing from LHD to RHD, or - presumably - replacing the original engine with another?) somehow changes "
the identification". I'm saying it doesn't.
Because Factory-designated chassis numbers are non-transferable and unalterable.
SeanDezart said:
But people ARE re-shelling cars, with shells that have another chassis number, effectively changing the identity of a LHD shelled car to RHD. Agreed that the number is staying with the chassis (in most cases) but the HLS signifies Left hand drive - HLS can never mean HS OR it really doesn't matter then to what lengths Nissan went to properly codify their export chassis numbers
I'm at a loss to find any other way of getting it through to you. You cannot "
re-shell" one of these cars. To do so would involve erasing or altering one factory-applied identity and attaching another.
SeanDezart said:
I remain of the view that changing an HLS numbered chassis RHD constitues a change of identity.
But how? As I've already stated, the Factory-designated chassis number is not a moveable feast. If you want to start a philosophical discussion on the meaning of "
identity" in the context of these particular cars then go ahead, but I'll stick with the bottom line being that the Factory-designated chassis prefix and body serial number combo are the key.
Your position on changing an HLS-prefixed car to RHD seems to be that the identity changes. Where does that start and stop? If I put an L26 engine into a car that came equipped from the factory with an L24, have I changed the "
identity" of the car? Of course not. I may have changed its details, or even its
nature, but not its
identity. I could put the whole thing into a crusher and use it as a coffee table, but that doesn't change its
identity.
I asked you an - admittedly partly rhetorical - question in my last post:
Albrecht said:
Do you honestly think that it's any kind of good thing for cars to be mis-identified and/or identities changed?
...but you never went anywhere near it, did you? I'm talking about Factory-designated chassis numbers and supporting paperwork. I think it goes without saying that it is vital for a buyer to know exactly what they have bought. Therefore it will be, er,
helpful if a seller describes it fully and properly - if indeed he himself is fully informed. I know of cases where buyers have discovered that their car is not what they thought it was, and it is not usually to their advantage.
SeanDezart said:
Ultimately, the private owner (as in this case now or the previous one before him) will sell it on, assumably at a profit so ANY chassis change is ultimately pecunious, even if only to remove many hours labour at the high rates today.
You're doing it again, aren't you? What does "
chassis change" mean here? In the case of the S30-series Z, "chassis change" means
car change.