Re: [FWDLK] Serial number question

["C. B. Kidder" <60Saratoga@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For what it's worth, my 60 Saratoga is 8203-124710, and was delivered
1/26/60.

Brion Kidder

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill K." <pontiac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 6:26 PM
Subject: [FWDLK] Serial number question


> I add up the figures in my Chrysler book and get only 39,000 or so total
> Windsors built for '60 not including wagons.   It says the serial number
for
> the sedans and coupes begins 8103-100001.  The serial number on the car I
> bought is 8103-140392.
>
> This leads to the question, did the sequential production numbers in the
> plant stretch across all the lines, IE the first '60 built is the only one
> with a 100001 serial number - the first Windsor wagon might have been say
> the 248th car built, for a VIN 8503-100249?
>
> Otherwise my serial number makes no sense, it's higher than the combined
> production for all non-wagon Windsors both Detroit and Los Angeles. The
way
> the book reads it would seem to imply that each model and wagons all had a
> 100001 car beginning the series.  I don't build 'em, I mostly take them
> apart, so if that seemed obvious to some of you it went over my head.
>
>
> Bill K.
>
>
>
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