by Florida_Slotter » Wed Jun 25, 2014 10:41 am
dge467,
I used to judge car shows and the VIN was THE first thing I checked. I had the codes so imbedded in my mind that I never had a decoding sheet with me.
One day I was judging a pair of SuperBirds. I wrote down the VIN on the judging sheet, then did a walk through and then I started looking at the car. When I got down I wrote down all the comments and stuff. I then moved on to the next SuperBird. As I wrote down the VIN number, I said to myself, "Self, those VINs are pretty close to one another. So I checked and they were SEQUENTIAL! I called over the two owners and asked them if they knew their two cars followed each other down the assembly line almost 40 years earlier.