<VV> when it was built?

[jryall@juno.com]

There were 207,114 Corvairs of all models produced in 1964.  As far as I
know, there is no record of quantities produced by day, week or month. 
Therefore, dividing 207,114 by 52 weeks, indicates about 3983 cars built
per week.  Yours was probably built around the middle of the seventh week
of production.  I can't find any reference in my library as to what date
the model year changed.  The introduction date of the '60 model was Oct
2, 1959, so production must have started before that.  Anyway, your car
is early enough to have been built in '63, probably around November.  (My
best guess)

If anybody can explain a more exact method of determining when a car was
built, I would like to hear it.
What was the start of manufacture in each year?
John Ryall

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 11:18:57 -0600 "Thomas L. Gwyther" <gwyth@sisna.com>
writes:
> I have found that much out, what I would really like to know is what 
> date
> the sequence ends up on?
> 
> The sequence is W129956 (in 1964), so it is the 29,956th corvair 
> built at
> willow run that year.
> 
> What date would that make it?
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <jryall@juno.com>
> To: <gwyth@sisna.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 11:06 AM
> Subject: Re: <VV> when it was built?
> 
> 
> > Looking at the VIN, the 3rd, 4th and 5th numbers indicate the 
> model, the
> > 6th number is the year, the letter indicates where made W= Willow 
> Run for
> > example.  The last 6 numbers are the serial number.  The first 1 
> in the
> > serial number is a place holder, so the last 5 numbers are the 
> actual
> > sequence in manufacturing.
> >
> > John  Ryall
> >
> > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:50:44 -0600 "Thomas L. Gwyther" 
> <gwyth@sisna.com>
> > writes:
> > > My son is looking to buy a Corvair is there anywhere I can look 
> to
> > > find when
> > > in was manufactured?
> > >
> > > We have the VIN of the car he is interested in.
> > >  _______________________________________________