by Alaskan_TA » 17 Jun 2008 1:00
OK, since it is a Y14 car, it was either ordered by a dealership or by a customer through a dealership and it either had a deposit put down on it at that time or it was paid for in full.
Chrysler sent out numbered order pads to the dealerships so they could order cars. The pages of the pads were sequentially numbered. I have not been able to figure out how many pages were in each pad yet, but it was at least 25 pages.
The number on the pad was how the order was tracked with the shceduled production date as a prefix. The date and the number from the order pad appear on all documents for the car, including the fender tag.
So, as far as the low VON number goes, it just happened to be a number on a pad of order blanks sent to the dealership your car was ordered from.
There are some exceptions, if a Challenger was ordered from a numbered pad, but the order included a 999 paint color, the VON would be pre-empted with one that started with a J as one example.