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| I have a 1958 chrysler that i bought from the original owner the title tho states the vin starts with 58w which matches the engine number but the vin tag says lc1 any ideas why they would do that he has the original pink slip and it says the same |
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Location: Eastern Iowa | Some states, back in the day, like MO for instance, used the engine # on the title.
I bought a 57 DeSoto from MO years ago and had a hell of a time getting the title sorted out in Iowa. |
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| Yea thats what i figured luckily the car has the original engine |
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Location: Vancouver, BC | LC1- is the prefix for the serial number (VIN) for a Detroit-built 1958 Chrysler Windsor. The first one built was LC1-1001.
Los Angeles-built 1958 Windsors started at LC1L-1001. The "L" before the "C" was the Engineering Dept's code for the 1958 model year.
As others have pointed out, the engine number started with 58W- and many states used the engine number to identify the car instead of the serial number/VIN.
Edited by Chrycoman 2016-03-08 6:34 PM
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Location: So. Cal | My '58 New Yorker title says: LC1-32*****. Of course it should say LC3-12***** since a New Yorker should be LC3. I wonder how much trouble that is going to be to work out. I haven't attempted it yet. |
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Location: N.W. Fla. | Powerflite - 2016-03-08 9:35 PM
My '58 New Yorker title says: LC1-32*****. Of course it should say LC3-12***** since a New Yorker should be LC3. I wonder how much trouble that is going to be to work out. I haven't attempted it yet. The State probably doesn't care, but your Insurance company might ask. Once had a '73 Mustang, the VIN that is supposed to start 3F but someone stamped 33F. Insurance company questioned it but not the State. |
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| I run into vehicles with mistakes of one sort or another on the ownership/title all the time. I'm registered in Ontario to do ownership transfer appraisals that are required for cars over 20 years of age. I made up a form letter listing the serial number on the document(s) and the vehicle and include photos of both along with my registration number. No one I've done this for has had an issue in getting the document(s) corrected.
Well, once. A friend went to New Jersey and purchased a '57 Imperial Crown coupe. The title identified the car as a Chevrolet Impala, the serial number listed on the title bore no resemblance to the serial number on the car and the best guess was that someone cherry picked numbers from the body tag and used those. He was in the license office for 20 minutes before they sorted it out. The only downside is that Ontario doesn't recognize Imperial as ever having been anything other than a model of Chrysler, so the ownership now identifies the car make as "Chrysler" and model as "Imperial".
Can't win 'em all. |
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