Hi Dave, This is actually typical of how the cars were assembled. It's normal for the chassis, engine, and frame numbers to vary on each car. My theory is that early on the managers of factory production decided it wasn't cost effective to coordinate each chassis, frame and engine number to match.. Whenever there was a delay they probably just grabbed the next available frame or engine for the chassis that was being assembled. I have never heard of a DeLorean with "matching numbers" before. Check your frame tag and you'll probably find it varies a bit from the other numbers too! Inexplicably the storage building that was used to house the production records burned down so we'll never know where all these respective chassis, frame, and engine numbers reside. It sure is a difficult job being a DeLorean historian! Rob Grady, P.J.Grady Inc. _____ From: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of dsontos Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 12:25 PM To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [DML] Wrong engine Here is a note for the DeLorean historians here. I've just pulled my engine to take care of some oil leaks and some general cleanup and as I was scrubbing the ID tag on the engine I noticed that DeLorean serial number 002573 has a engine with serial number 002657. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.74/2339 - Release Date: 09/02/09 05:50:00 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnewsYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:dmcnews-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:dmcnews-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/