Alaskan_TA wrote:Just for whatever it is worth;
The earliest SPD I have for a 1970 Hamtramck export car so far is 9-2-1969 and the latest is 6-16-1970.
Any particular order for cars would get assigned VIN numbers as the orders came in. If this group of cars with the 08 17xxxx numbers were all recieved at the same time, from the same place, the VIN numbers would very likely be sequential.
Barry
There were a handful of "special orders" (including my own JH27N0B232739, SPD January 15th, 1970 if I remember correctly), and a batch of 24 cars ordered at the same time for 1970.
For the first "special ordered" cars, I don't remember the quantity, but it's below 10. How all the others were titled is a mystery, since there si no record of a crash test, and more than 15 cars could not be titled without one. But some of the 24 were probably sold new in adjoining countries (Belgium, most likely).