View Single Post
Old 09-24-2010, 07:44 AM   #6
Keith Seymore
Registered User
 
Keith Seymore's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Motor City
Posts: 9,287
Re: Help Decode this Frame Vin#

Quote:
Originally Posted by Blazer1970 View Post
I have been on this board for many years, and I have never seen an explanation of those frame VINs that makes sense.
Quote:
Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine View Post
As for the frame VIN numbers, who can say, maybe production line 3, shift 2. or something?

I'm no expert on '67 -72 (my expertise is '73 on up): are you saying there is no reliable VIN decode for '72?

I can say with certainty that 73 on up is absolutely understood. I'll do some research for you guys if need be.

By the way, usually "Z" decodes to a plant code of Fremont California. Were your trucks built in Fremont?

514012 is, of course, the build sequence number (aka the "serial" number), and is used as the numeric portion of the VIN. Incidently, at my plant, VINs that started with 500000 were GMC, Chevy started with 100000 (not sure that is the case here).

K
__________________
Chevrolet Flint Assembly
1979-1986
GM Full Size Truck Engineering
1986 - 2019
Intro from an Old Assembly Guy: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=342926
My Pontiac story: http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...d.php?t=560524
Chevelle intro: http://www.superchevy.com/features/s...hevy-chevelle/

Last edited by Keith Seymore; 09-24-2010 at 07:46 AM.
Keith Seymore is offline   Reply With Quote