right starting to shed some like on this now. i would apper that the vin plate is not origanal. it is a ford backing but someone has filled it in them self. there is also no date stamp on the slam pannel or the driverside wing so all i can think of is the car had some sort of crash there and thats why the vin plate has been tampered with.

gunna take the carpet up tommorow and have a look just incase the car has been re shell or ringed or something like taht. fingers crossed it hasn't though.

im also going to go to fords and see if they will make me a new vin plate. hopelfully they will be able to run one off and it will have the original info on it.