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Thanks anyway!! there has to be someone or something out there???….Please let me know if you hear of anything or find a good contact. I am willing to pay good$$$$ for any manuals, build sheets, parts, tool kit jack. If they are original Thanks Cliff
you state you had an allison, well i have one and she is a looker but i have no owners manual part or build manuals nothing!! by any chance would you have anything or can you point me in the right direction in obtaining anything manuals jacks tool kit. Or do you have any spare part.
Moss;
hope you do not mind me shorting your name??
Thanks for the info. it was helpful.
Life was lawless prior too 1981 for a Vin #!!.. I have pieced together most of the Vin # from the site Subasteve sent me (aircooled.net) Thanks Subasteve. Car was made by Allison Replicar LLC in Canada. I will post more as it comes avail. too me.
Thanks to all
Cliff
From what i have been able to ascertain is that prior too 1981 there was no set standard on the use of Vin#’s and from what i hold to be true is that a Vin# follows the car not the power plant(eng.) So as long as the car’s Vin# and DMV’s Vin# on the title are a match I am good to go? I HOPE!! Â But then did/Do replica’s have a Vin# or did/Do they just have a S/N??? Is there a Vin plate on a replica?
HELP asap!! Can anyone tell me why my new 1981 MG TD Allison 1700cc 102hp replica has only 15 # in the VIN?
No hurry here!! Â Will stay off interstate as much as possible. I want to see the mom and pop cafe’s the motels not the hotels.
Thanks Cliff
We will try driving as much of route 66 as we can starting from Santa Monica Ca which is the beganing or the end of 66? I believe?? This will be my last big ride (trip) so will make the most of it and see what is left of the old country , before it’s all gone as parts of it are already gone now!! Still planning the route right now.
Thank you for the in-put
Cliff
One thing going for me is i have always been the smallest around, but I have learned  a few tricks on just how and when to be seen!!! and yes using my “HEAD” light is a smart move!! always. Thanks for the in-put.
Cliff
PMossburg thanks for the help today!!
I rode a Harley for 30 yrs and wish i had wore ear protection. “WHAT” is used a lot!! Â I some what remember just how loud the VW eng were. Thanks for the tips and the help
I think i have made a good choice with this TD replica . What do you know about the TD replica’s with the chevy 4 cyl. eng. in the front.
Hey, Cliff: Welcome aboard. If your car really has 100 horsepower it will be one of the stronger TD replicas out there. It weighs about 1800 pounds (200 less than the original TD), and has twice the power of a stock VW engine.
A few Julys ago, I saddled-up my 1500-cc(?), 46-horse BCW, loaded in a couple day’s provisions, and my wife, and drove 300 miles over the mountains from Baltimore to Pittsburgh for the Vintage Grand Prix.
Was a little slow going up some of them hills, but we made it.
The real enemy wasn’t lack of power, it was heat and fatigue. Six hours is a long time in an open car with no A/C on a 90-degree day. We had a great adventure, but flat-towed the TD on our next Pittsburgh jaunt.
Aside from earplugs, make sure you pack sunscreen, and keep all your important stuff in the kind of “drybag” kayakers use.
I’m itching to do a cross-country trip in Bridget, but I’m pretty sure my wife will not be down for that. Keep us posted!
Great info!! Thanks. I am looking to make a trip from calif. to D.C and back with my brother. Heading to the wall for the first time kinda like a bucket list thing. He’ll Be on his Harley and me in my TD I can’t ride anymore and I have always wanted a TD so now is my chance I am not getting younger. Will keep ya posted.
Cliff, You will have plenty of power. You will find that your TDr (Allison is one of the best) is probably not very comfortable above 65mph. (maybe 70). I like 60 on my TDr and it’s in nearly perfect condition.
I hope you will drive it for a while locally until it is fully sorted out. Even after that, carry a full set of tools. I’m assuming that you like tweaking and fiddling with the car else, I would not recommend a cross country trip. Others may argue with me, but:
I’m not young enough to know everything.
I really don’t know enough about your expertise with VW’s to advise without sounding like a grandmother. The longest trip I ever took was in a showroom “real” MGTF-1500 from RI to Charleston, SC. I was 35 when I left and 60 when I arrived in Chasn, three days later.
Do it. You’ll have another story to tell your grandkids.
Yes!! I like to tinker, I am not a mechanic but more like a jack of all trades. I have had a couple of VW and I was always working on them, but that was 30yrs ago when I knew everything so yes, a new story in the making.
