[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

KurtS;
I understand your logic, but when was the VIN # asigned to a particular car? I thought it was asigned more towards the end of the process, when the engine/trans was installed into the car. We thought the VIN was asigned much later because of the two types of paper found on the cars. One type is a crude piece of thick paper with only the body #, trim code and date typed on it, the other type is the traditional Nova Broadcast Sheet showing the Body # and the related VIN #, among other codes. Theory; the first paper was the 'instructions' until the VIN was asigned via the broadcast sheet later on down the line, (?).

The '70 Y-Novas have other situations where the body numbers are in sequence, the VIN #'s are generally increasing, but with very large gaps - like 183 cars, then 1,344 car gap, then back 742 cars, then backwards another 579, then forward..... This 'jumping' around led us to believe that batches of cars might have been pulled due to shortages, (like rears diff's), and then as parts arrived they were put back into 'line' at random thereby receiving a somewhat 'random' asignment of their VIN#, (?).

M