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**'68OrangeSunshine** · 02-19-2015, 06:41 PM

Sometimes last year's models remain unsold on the dealers lot. He then sells a truck at reduced cost to a consumer. The DMV might register the vehicle in the current year, as a current model, with an indifferent attitude to its actual model year, especially when the old model year is nearly identical [to anyone less than an expert] to the new model year design. What do they care, it's a 'new' truck, right?
I remember a '72 model year GMC Suburban at a junkyard, I pulled the windshield from. The junker insisted it was a '73, citing all his paperwork. I knew from the body design it was, in fact a '67 - '72. He told me it was a 'late-bloomer' and had been registered officially as a 1973. I didn't stick around to argue. I got my windshield [real PPG]. He wanted too much for the Sub's Parchment [white] sunvisors, and I left.
BTW, It's not a GMC, is it?

02-19-2015, 06:41 PM	#5
'68OrangeSunshine Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Tucson, AZ USA Posts: 7,622	Re: Vin decodes to a 71. But title says 72? Sometimes last year's models remain unsold on the dealers lot. He then sells a truck at reduced cost to a consumer. The DMV might register the vehicle in the current year, as a current model, with an indifferent attitude to its actual model year, especially when the old model year is nearly identical [to anyone less than an expert] to the new model year design. What do they care, it's a 'new' truck, right? I remember a '72 model year GMC Suburban at a junkyard, I pulled the windshield from. The junker insisted it was a '73, citing all his paperwork. I knew from the body design it was, in fact a '67 - '72. He told me it was a 'late-bloomer' and had been registered officially as a 1973. I didn't stick around to argue. I got my windshield [real PPG]. He wanted too much for the Sub's Parchment [white] sunvisors, and I left. BTW, It's not a GMC, is it? __________________ Every 25 years I like to rebuild that 292, whether it needs it or not.