<VV> earliest known Corvair?

[Kent Sullivan]

There is not an order to the letters. The letter is there for a couple of
reasons:

1) To identify the plant of origin, which is necessary sometimes for
warranty reasons.

2) To ensure that every car has a unique VIN. 

The Corvair plants had VINs that followed the same pattern. The last six
digits are the serial number and, within a given year, the serial numbers
all started at the same number (not counting Canada, which also did not use
a letter since there was only one plant).

So, it's possible for two cars' VINs to vary by only the plant code letter.
That would of course mean that they had to be the same model and year.

--Kent
-----Original Message-----
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Per
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 8:02 PM
To: J R Read_HML
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Subject: Re: <VV> earliest known Corvair?

OK, if each plant has its own letter, what is the order of those letters,
and are the numbers "shared" between them ?

Any way to tell this ?


----- Original Message -----
From: "J R Read_HML" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Shaun" <shaun_mcgarvey at shaw.ca>; "Charles Lee at Prop Per" 
<chaz at ProperProPer.com>; "Rick Loving" <ral1963 at comcast.net>
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Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> earliest known Corvair?


> Each plan has its own letter.
>
> Attachments (if any) are scanned with anti-virus software.
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> Later, JR
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Shaun" <shaun_mcgarvey at shaw.ca>
> To: "Charles Lee at Prop Per" <chaz at ProperProPer.com>; "Rick Loving" 
> <ral1963 at comcast.net>
> Cc: "Virtual Vairs" <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 9:44 PM
> Subject: Re: <VV> earliest known Corvair?
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>
>>I was wondering the same thing....
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Charles Lee at Prop Per" <chaz at ProperProPer.com>
>> To: "Rick Loving" <ral1963 at comcast.net>
>> Cc: "Virtual Vairs" <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 7:10 PM
>> Subject: Re: <VV> earliest known Corvair?
>>
>>
>>> Did each plant have its own VIN range ?
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Rick Loving" <ral1963 at comcast.net>
>>> To: <virtualvairs at skiblack.com>
>>> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 6:56 PM
>>> Subject: RE: <VV> earliest known Corvair?
>>>
>>>
>>> > Didn't Kansas City production start a couple weeks later then Willow
>>> > run?  So even with the low serial number, it would be several
>>> > hundred(maybe over a thousand) behind Willow run serials.
>>> >
>>> > Definitely old but probably not the oldest...
>>> >
>>> > Rick Loving
>>> >
>>> > Subject: <VV> earliest known Corvair?
>>> >
>>> > Did anyone else notice # 37 is up for sale in the CORSA Classifieds?
>>> > $500
>>> > http://www.corvair.org/cgi-bin/csaad.pl
>>> > the link might not work....
>>> > yea, Vairily ... Shaun
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