Ok, Ive been scouring the engine bay looking for something to help, it seems to have the original VIN number still on the chassis, it seems to be a ford front chassis it starts off 6F9AMCC0896 XXX < the rest is scrubbed out. I've searched the VIN register, seems to be Ford something.
Note, this is not the current VIN, it has that stamped on one of the frame rails.
David Hodgson
I think you may be right though, I just googled crown front end and it looks very similar to this, here are a couple of crude photos I managed to take of the front clip.
it looks very similar to the one on this page
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