<VV> 1966 vin question

[Gary Bullman]

Mark,

The VIN (on stainless tag by battery) is total Corvair production, so you’re right it was the 20102nd Corvair built at Willow Run.  To find out which convertible it was you need to look at the body tag which is located on the frame rail behind the distributor.  Under General Motors Corporation the first 3 characters are month and week of body assembly (number is month, letter is week), then the sole letter is the color the interior was painted.  The next line has what you want;

66-10767 is a 66 Corsa Convertible, WRN is Willow Run, the the number before Body is the sequence of yours for all Corsa Convertibles.

For example my car’s body was made 4th week of October (implied it was in 1965 as a 66 model year) and it was number 737 of 66 Corsa Convertibles.  I know someone in Southeast PA that has a 66 Corsa that I believe was built 2 week before (or maybe 2 weeks after, not sure).  I’d be curious where you fall in the model year.

Hope this helps.

Gary Bullman






On Feb 25, 2023, at 1:49 PM, Mark Plucenik via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:

This is my first time posting a question so I'm hoping this works.  My car
is a 1966 Corsa convertible. The last digit's of my vin are W120102.
Looking at the Corvair junkyard Primer booklet the last 6 digit's of those
number less 100000 give me the production number for that plant for 1966.
According to this my car is the 20102th Corsa convertible produced in 1966.
But, looking at the total 1966 Corsa convertible production numbers there
were only 3142 ever made. Am I looking at this wrong?  Are the last 6
numbers the total Corvair production , all models.  I'm wondering if the car
is actually a very early 66 production car or a late 66 car?




Thanks , Mark Plucenik

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