Hello everybody. Has been a long time since I have asked any questions. I have tried to decode the vin number of this car with a little success. 7688771158xxx. I know the last 7 means the year. I think it was built in Oshawa, and came with a V8. After that i am lost as american vins are different and just screwing with my brain. Cowel tag information. STYLE 768872-6-2 (confusing). BODY OS761131. Paint 966 ( I am guessing signet gold as it is an original car ) TRIM 573. and then this M4O CO8TP27U80. Hope you can help. Thank you
Hello everybody. Has been a long time since I have asked any questions. I have tried to decode the vin number of this car with a little success. 7688771158xxx. I know the last 7 means the year. I think it was built in Oshawa, and came with a V8. After that i am lost as american vins are different and just screwing with my brain. Cowel tag information. STYLE 768872-6-2 (confusing). BODY OS761131. Paint 966 ( I am guessing signet gold as it is an original car ) TRIM 573. and then this M4O CO8TP27U80. Hope you can help. Thank you
Off the top of my head-
768 Parisienne 2+2
87 2 door hardtop
7 is 1967
1 is the plant code. Did someone say 1 is Oshawa on a different thread? Oshawa used to be a O in earlier VIN's.
On the cowl tag, remove the 76887 and you have 2-6-2 which is month-day-2nd shift.
OS761131 is the body sequence number
M40 is turbo 400
C08 is vinyl top
TP27 is top colour and I think that is black in this case
U80 is rear speaker
I may have made some mistakes which someone will hopefully correct if I did, as I said, off the top of my head.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Oh, and now of course when I post, I see Vince beat me to it!
I am doing this on my phone and it is a PITA to navigate and that was my BIGGEST fear that I would hit post and I would be be beat to it.... Lucky this time (lol)
In '67, they went to the 1 as the designation for Oshawa plant.. It was a 0 before..
-- Edited by 67Poncho on Wednesday 9th of August 2017 09:28:15 PM
Great. Now I have to see if engine and trans match up. Engine looks a little to clean.
Because it's a Turbo 400 car, it had to have a minimum of a 327. Don't give up hope that it could be a big block car. We had a member here years ago with one that the original engine was gone and it turned out to have been a big block car originally with the pretty rare F41 suspension.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
