[VintageLambo] Re: Espada S1 chassis plate

Aaron, Good work, I keep learning stuff about our cars each time i read this. It looks like prefix"s 0,1 & 2 were for the 350/400GT/2+2 (any 2 series listed?), 3,4 & 5 were for the Muira, 6 was for the Islero (both), and 7, 8 & 9 were for the three series of the Espada. The 10 prefix was for the Jarama, and maybe 11 was for either the Jarama or Countach, and 12 was Countach early. The last three digits of the imprint on the right fender I think are the build number with some massaging. Udo, It would be nice to get the sequencing straight somehow. My car is 146 built, and I tried to convince my wife to let me get the 1967 car, but it was gone too soon. I hope you keep it up and make it nice. If you get tired of it, call me, I"ll take it off your hands and do the chassis resto on it. I"m getting pretty good at it by now. Please give us more details about the car when you can. Try to find the engine number imprint on the block between the heads, under the water pipe. I think it will be a 4 digit number (if orig). Doc --- In VintageLambo@yahoogroups.com, "Robinson, Aaron" wrote: > Espadas have that plate on the frame as well. Here"s my theory: Marchesi > built the frames, Bertone the bodies, and Lamborghini the powertrain. This > was all before the days of kanban, keizen, and computer inventory > management. Lamborghini probably sent a type-written order to Marchesi for X > number of frames, with no specific chassis numbers or sequencing. Marchesi > put assigned chassis number on the frame (perhaps in consultation with or at > the direction of Lamborghini, maybe with no more instruction than to start > it with a 7 and make it four numbers). > > Given Italian pride of workmanship, probably Marchesi had a free hand to > number the chassis any way that suited them. Nobody has shown how an Espada > chassis number correlates with Lamborghini production (in 7323, what does > the 7 mean? what does the 3 mean?) but perhaps the digits mean something to > a Marchesei worker. i.e. 7th project of 1968, 7=steel, box section tubes, > welded in work bay number 7, whatever. .....