In a message dated 9/1/99 1:09:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Comet42483@xxxx writes: << Okay, There were supposedly 8,800 Deloreans made right? Well mine says (on the drivers door sill) that it was made in November of 1981, but my VIN# is SCEDT26T6BD006974, wouldn't this mean that it was the 6,974th car built ? but if it is then why is the number so high, ? any insight would be very helpful >> You can't go by the vin numbers for "actual time" of production,after all the first real vin starts with # 500 and the last vin is # 20104,that would mean that 19,604 Deloreans were built,certainly not so,as you can see the only thing the Vin # tells you is basically when in sequence it was built,but NOT exactly how many Deloreans were built before yours.Numbers were skipped,as my vin # is 000570,and I know there were not sixty nine cars built before mine (maybe 10 cars or so)but nobody knows which numbers were skipped,therefore you must also use the date of manufacture to guide you. Claude Vin#000570