Your seller is incorrect, as you have been advised. His insistence on this
point would have me worried. There is nothing wrong with a replacement
frame, so he should fess up, perhaps it was a DPO who did the switch.
Here's a different tack. Original details. Who out there can think of some
original details that wouldn't be on a later car? Red lamiplate comes to
mind[cockpit sides, dash] Original gauges[non smiths]fuel filler in trunk,
the construction of the tranny tunnel is different on some cars. My caterham
supplied sheet metal has a rigid inverted "u" riveted to the frame at the
front of the tunnel, forward of the shifter. The original had a piece of
formed alloy that slid up into that spot, no rivets, as are some other cars
i have seen.
Anything else?
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