Oddball VIN --just noticed

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by kwmech

Had my 68 GMC for 20 years and never noticed or compared the vin to the title. Yeah I know--weird by itself. So being a GMC the vin is a little bit different but..... CE 2590 DZB followed by the 5 numbers comes out to 14 digits. Now the pillar plate has CE 2 0D - ZB 5 numbers equals 12 digits minus the hyphen. The oddball 59 on the title is 1967 only designating a 127'' wheel base.

Any clues?

reference here http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=570059

Don't know if I'm answering your question, but I had a VIN issue with a Roadside Rescue guy, who gave me a battery jump on Monday night last week.

I have a '71 GMC Jimmy K/1500. My [partial] VIN is KE114S-134xxx. I showed the guy my Registration with the VIN, and he said OK, then tried to plug in my 13 digit number [incl ''-'']. His computer system wanted more numbers. I said the Dash should count as a digit, since it represents where an extra code letter/number would go if I had specific equipment relavent in the State of Pennsylvania. Being in AZ [and originally sold in CA] my Jimmy has no PA related equipment. Whatever that was?
Arizona ADOT/MVD does not include the Dash on the registration slip.
He called me again before I'd gotten two blocks away. Saying he needed to see my VIN again. I pulled over. This time he took a phone snapshot of the Actual VIN plate. The system still kicked it back.
They told him it MUST be 17 digits long.
[Plant is ''S'' St Louis, MO -- where all K/5s, Blazers and Jimmys were made. Until MY '72, When Flint, MI [''F''] added K/5 and K/1500s to the production line.]

OK, so he figured to add five more Zeros to the front of the sequence, and it worked.