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57windycoupe

Posted 2008-02-24 5:45 PM (#116637)
Subject: 57 chrysler vin tag

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Neil, here is my tag from the 57 windsor in my garage, any clues as to what this stuff means?

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d500neil

Posted 2008-02-25 3:18 AM (#116707 - in reply to #116637)
Subject: Re: 57 chrysler vin tag

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Sorry, Justin, but, if you get your car's IBM card-copy from Chrysler's Historical Society, you can make educated guesses about the P/T plates coding (e.g.: there might be several instances of number-repeats on the P/T plate and/or on the IBM copy, and the three small-big numbers on the P/T plate will not correlate to the three-number option codings on the IBM card.

The best thing is to have both the Broadcast Sheet and the IBM card-copy, and the P/T plate from one car, as well as a listing/break-down of the factory's Option-Groups, and a paint-chip card, and a Ross Roy Data Book, and all the factory brochures, and announcements, and Press Kits, and a service manual, ......man! It (your education) never ends.

57windycoupe

Posted 2008-02-26 5:33 PM (#116868 - in reply to #116637)
Subject: Re: 57 chrysler vin tag

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Wow! Thanks for the insight

StillOutThere

Posted 2008-03-05 7:05 PM (#118440 - in reply to #116637)
Subject: RE: 57 chrysler vin tag

Location: Under the X in Texas

I have all the 57 Chrysler codes. No time at the moment. PM me.

Wayne

d500neil

Posted 2008-03-05 10:04 PM (#118473 - in reply to #116637)
Subject: Re: 57 chrysler vin tag

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Hey, Wayne; let us know how this car decodes...looks to be well optioned,.

StillOutThere

Posted 2008-03-06 2:43 PM (#118554 - in reply to #118473)
Subject: Re: 57 chrysler vin tag

Location: Under the X in Texas

146 '57 Windsor 2dr hardtop

Paint XPX White /Gauguin Red /White

Trim 56 - I'd have to find my interior book!

Schedule Date 0121 - built Jan 21 of '57 and the shipping date leaving the factory should be marked on the bottom of the glove box

This is body number 15008 built

361 Antenna - Manual right

353 Stone Shields

349 Dual headlights (4 bulbs total

335 Mirror - left outside rear view

311 Light package - Windsor only

323 Heater - Custom Conditionaire

265 is a totally unknown code

A9 is the axle ratio which you will find stamped on the right side of the carrier on a flat

337 Torque-Flite in Windsor

341 Undercoating for Windsor & Saratoga

333 Safety Cushion Dash for Windsor

332 Solex Glass

325 Power Brakes

57burb

Posted 2008-03-06 4:31 PM (#118567 - in reply to #116637)
Subject: RE: 57 chrysler vin tag

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Funny, my '57 New Yorker also has a code 265. Strange that two cars on the site have that code and no one is sure what it is. I'm sending in for my Chysler Historical Society decoding so if I find anything out I'll let everyone know.

StillOutThere

Posted 2008-03-06 4:41 PM (#118569 - in reply to #118567)
Subject: RE: 57 chrysler vin tag

Location: Under the X in Texas

That is the problem: EVERY '57 Chrysler seems to have the 265 code so it is meaningless.

57burb

Posted 2008-03-06 7:19 PM (#118594 - in reply to #118569)
Subject: RE: 57 chrysler vin tag

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Maybe it decodes as "1957."

My57Saratoga

Posted 2008-03-06 9:32 PM (#118623 - in reply to #118594)
Subject: RE: 57 chrysler vin tag

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When I sent for my build sheet from Mother MOPAR a couple of years ago, the cover letter indicated that "256" stood for a Saratoga 2DR HT. The IBM card copy which accompanied the letter shows "256" as the "MODEL". Oops, this thread is about "265" ....sorry!

Edited by My57Saratoga 2008-03-06 9:35 PM

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d500neil

Posted 2008-03-08 5:03 PM (#118964 - in reply to #118623)
Subject: Re: 57 chrysler vin tag

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S'funny that CHRY would only need three digits to I.D a "1957 Windsor 2-dr HT" (e.g.) , whereas good ol Dodge used four
digits, so, if someone were just to give me those four digits --let's say : " 2147" , I could say, de-FIN-itively, that those numbers
pertained to a 1957, Dodge, Coronet, 4-dr hardtop (with the standard engine--maybe the 4th-extra digit, confirming the engine
type/style is the differrence between the cars: no engine-platform confirmation on the CHRY's.

StillOutThere

Posted 2008-03-09 10:07 AM (#119077 - in reply to #118964)
Subject: Re: 57 chrysler vin tag

Location: Under the X in Texas

Funny is as funny does. Seems 'funny' to me that Dodge needed four digits to nail down the model and body when Chrysler could "name that car" in only three!

d500neil

Posted 2008-03-09 10:03 PM (#119196 - in reply to #119077)
Subject: Re: 57 chrysler vin tag

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...Because, my dear Watson, Dodge gave you MORE information, than the lowly Chrysler models.

Dodge told you which engine-platform/configuration the particular car should be 'wearing'....

brdtee

Posted 2009-09-01 6:48 AM (#187132 - in reply to #116637)
Subject: RE: 57 chrysler vin tag

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My Windsor has totally different looking tag. Wonder where the option codes should be on LA built cars?

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