The VIN code first:
- Year 6: 1966
- Plant T: Metuchen, New Jersey
- Body style 07: 2 door hardtop
- Engine A: 289 4v V8
- Unit 110982
And then the misc codes
- Body 65A: 2 door hardtop, standard interior
- Color Y: silver blue metallic
- Trim 22: light blue crinkle vinyl and blue rosette vinyl, standard interior
- Date 17J: september 17, 1965
- D.S.O 950096: export, special order unit 0096
- Axle 1: 3.00:1, conventional
- Trans 5: 4-speed manual
Seems that the car is largely in its original shape. Original body and interior colors, original engine and transmission etc. I still need to check the engine block numbers but as they are under the starter, I have not seen them yet.
Being an export vehicle also supports that it might be an original Finnish car. I have no idea what the special order 0096 means though. If any reader has some idea, please comment this post. I would like to know as much as possible about this car.
The last four digits of that DSO don't indicate a particular destination. It worked like a rotation. If they had an order for some cars from country X and the next four digit number that they had not used yet was 0072, that was the DSO number that went on the door tags. The 95 means that it is an export car, and, if more cars showed up with 950096, they would all have gone to the same place, but, it was not the case that all cars heading to Finland had the DSO of 950096, as if a map of the world was sectioned of in a grid with numerical designations and the number on top of Finland was 950096.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I was guessing too. I've found two other cars with the same DSO and one of them had the next serial number from mine. The other was 110997. What I'm mostly wondering is that did all the cars with the same DSO have the same equipment or did it only signify the destination country?
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