MGA Chassis & Engine Numbering

This page is not intended to be a definitive guide to engine and chassis numbering but it should help as a guide making an initial identification of a car.

1500 Chassis numbers – nb. The numbers on early 1500 cars had the prefix ‘BP’:

1600 Chassis numbers:

Twin-Cam chassis numbers:

Engine numbers:

The MGA Register Holland is an online database containing details of thousands of MGAs. Click HERE and select “Home” to see if your car is on there.

More information on engine numbers can be found on the ‘MGA Guru’ website – click HERE to go to the relevant pages.