Re: [DML] what does the vin# mean?

["Chris Parnham" <chrisparnham@xxxx>]

Casey / list...ref your Vin 10259.........Vin. 10264, ( only 5 different)
is a UK car, LHD grey manual..never been exported, ex "Patrick Collection"
museum.

It is a club car and was at Eurofest..not sure of "year or month of build".

Chris P DOC UK

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Breer" <hbreer@xxxx>
To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: [DML] what does the vin# mean?


> Casey,
>
> The VIN Numbers are ROUGHLY chronological.
> 1. No one has a complete, factory printed, list of the VIN's produced. One
probably exists, but it is most likely filed away in some lawyer's office as
evidence for the bankruptcy and other lawsuits. Now
> that everything is settled (?) we might see one on eBay.
> 2. There appears to be 'missing' VIN numbers in the sequence(s).
> 3. The 12xxx series cars appear to have been pulled from the assembly
line, sent off site for the RHD conversion, and re-(vin)numbered.
> 4. Some other cars have VIN plates with production dates 'out of
sequence'. It is possible that there were assembly problems with these cars
and they were set aside, the problem corrected, and the car
> completed at a later time.
>
> Knut Grimsrud has been working on a list he calls the Production
Chronology for the past few years. It is very extensive, but not yet
complete (i.e.. your car is not listed.) see
> http://dmcnews.com/faq/img/news/n_vinlst.pdf The two closest cars to
yours on his list are 10255 and 10260, but neither of them show
manufacturing dates. The two closest cars that do show dates are
> 10251 and 10270, both of which were Dec-81 manufacture. Yours probably is
too, right?
>
> An excellent discussion of what the characters of the vin number mean was
created by Rob Lamrock and can be found in the DML archives at
http://dmcnews.com/backissues/dml272.html
>
> Hank Breer
> VIN 1141
>
> Cameron Putsch wrote:
>
> > I am now vin# 010259 and I am curious to find out if the cars vin
numbers are in cronological order so I can tell which number mine was off
the line. Other than that what does all that other jaz mean?
> >
> > Casey
> >
>
>
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