Hey Mike, do you have Dutch ancestors? because I believe your last name is derived from Bottelier, which is a well known name here in the Netherlands.
(the name was given to the guy who was responsible for supplies on the old tall ships)
So anyway I was going over the vin plate again, zooming in on the picture and I see it says: General Motors Continental
AntwerpGoogle tells me that from the 20's there have been a couple of manufactering plants in Belgium for CKD's Chevy, GMC, Bedford and Vauxhall.
haven't been doing much, went on a holiday to the Isle of Man for the TT races and somehow every weekend there seems to be a birthday party

Hopefully we'll get something done this weekend.