|
|
  
| Here's something requested by WIZARD:
VIN Plate and Body Tag from my '60 Chrysler New Yorker...
Decode Away, Friends!
Thanks,
-NM
 (VIN.jpg)
 (BODY TAG.jpg)
Attachments
----------------
 VIN.jpg (184KB - 345 downloads)
BODY TAG.jpg (200KB - 368 downloads)
|
|
| |
|
Expert
Posts: 1309
Location: Comox,British Columbia | I beat the rusty remains of my data plate off door pillar as I want to paint that area.Why does so much rust occur in and under that plate? |
|
| |
|
Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+
Posts: 13045
 
Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | If it's readable Eric, please post it here with your serialnumber. |
|
| |
|
Expert
Posts: 1819
Location: Vancouver, BC | For your 1960 New Yorker -
VIN - 8303102784
8 - Chrysler
3 - New Yorker (non-wagon)
0 - 1960
3 - Jefferson Ave. assembly plant
102784 - 2,784th car off the Jefferson line.
For the data tag, read left to right, bottom to top :
0921 1288 / 834 / 303 / UT2
S O NUMBER - Shipping Order Number
0921 1288 - where "09 21" is scheduled build date -
September 21 (1959)
BDY - Body - 834 -
8 - Chrysler
3 - New Yorker
4 - 4-door hardtop
TRM - Interior Trim - 303
30 - Upholstery material & style - ??
3 - Colour - Beige, Tan or Brown
PNT - Exterior Paint - UT2
U - Upper colour - Autumn Haze Metallic
T - Lower colour - Daytona Sand
2 - Paint style - 2 tone (roof / body)
Equipment installed -
N - Heater/AC - 1 = 311 - Heater with A/C
T - Radio - 7 = 427 - AM Golden Tone radio with rear speaker
V - Glass - 1 = 441 - Tinted glass - all windows
W - ?? - 3 = ??3
|
|
| |
|
Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+
Posts: 13045
Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | What about this one? This is a Canadian built Saratoga owned by a friend of mine. Is there anyone who can decode this?
For me most is clear, but I'm stuck on the Body No and the Trim Code. This is an extremely loaded Saratoga - I wounder if the trimcode is a "package"?
MODEL.............P-C-2-M-43
BODY No..........178
PAINT CODE.....UL
TRIM CODE.......PLE
|
|
| |
|
Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil!
Posts: 19146
Location: bishop, ca | Eric, the Paint/Trim plate was typically installed as a non-primered bare-steel plate, over/onto the bare metal of the firewall.
Water got under/between those two sections of bare metal, and rust resulted, and propagated from that area.
|
|
| |
|
Expert
Posts: 1819
Location: Vancouver, BC | wizard - 2008-08-14 4:24 AM
What about this one? This is a Canadian built Saratoga owned by a friend of mine. Is there anyone who can decode this?
For me most is clear, but I'm stuck on the Body No and the Trim Code. This is an extremely loaded Saratoga - I wounder if the trimcode is a "package"?
MODEL.............P-C-2-M-43
BODY No..........178
PAINT CODE.....UL
TRIM CODE.......PLE
Model - P C 2 M 43
P - 1960 model year
C - Chrysler
2 - 383-cid V8 (B block)
M - Saratoga
4 - 4-door
3 - hardtop
Body No. - 178
178th PC2-M-43 (1960 Chrysler Saratoga 4-door hardtop) built
Paint Code - Exterior - UL
U - Upper Colour - Desert Beige
L - Lower Colour - Jamaica Bronze Metallic
(#2 if last six digits of VIN 109440 & up, #1 if lower)
Trim Code - Interior - PLE
P - 1960 model year
LE - Silver Pearl vinyl & ?? cloth
Grey headlining, black carpet and instrument panel pad
|
|
| |
|
Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+
Posts: 13045
Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | You're the Man Bill! Impressive indeed. So that means that it's not possible to read out the options on a Canadian car?
This car has almost everything on it;
Body
Front Fender Ornaments
Remote Control Outside Rear-view Mirror 3-strut hooded mirror
Passenger Side Outside Rear-view Mirror 2-strut hooded mirror (should be 3-strut, but both types were mounted)
Sport tone trim
Panoramic Rear Window
Rear Bumper Guards
Rear Wing Antenna
Solex glass front and back
Underhood isolation and undercoating
Interior
Padded Lucite Steering Wheel
Power Window lifts
7 Button Selfseeking Radio
Chromed Hard Top Garnish Trim
6-Way Power Seat
Rear Window Defogger
Rear Seat Radio Speaker (1)
Do you also know the motor number Bill? PC2-162020 What is 162020?
Thanks
 (Instrpanel.JPG)
 (Inr_fram.JPG)
 (Inr_bak.JPG)
 (VVÃnster.JPG)
Attachments
----------------
Instrpanel.JPG (127KB - 253 downloads)
Inr_fram.JPG (120KB - 253 downloads)
Inr_bak.JPG (106KB - 249 downloads)
VVÃnster.JPG (159KB - 251 downloads)
|
|
| |
|
Expert 5K+
Posts: 7206
Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | Sven, I saw your friend's Canadian Saratoga posted for sale on line several years ago, in the province of, ( I think ) New Brunswick, or maybe Nova Scotia, can't remember. I have quite a few pictures saved of this beauty, and indeed it has almost every conceivable option. I am sure that all Canadian built four door hardtops came with the sky high rear window, even through the 1962 model year. And many of them had the clear lucite padded steering wheels. Speaking of the steering wheels, this one has a black painted center hub, mine has a white painted center hub. Any ideas why the differences? I notice one option this car is missing is the day/night prismatic rear view mirror. Also this car, being Canadian built, will have a Low Block 383 instead of the Raised block 383. <br />
Edited by imopar380 2008-08-15 11:51 AM
|
|
| |
|
Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+
Posts: 13045
Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Bill, "the oracle" will know about the Canadian 4 door hardtops for sure! I really don't know about the center hub Ian - I thought that the black one was for Windsor and Saratoga while the white one was "reserved" for the New Yorkers - but then again, I have no proof of that. |
|
| |
|
Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil!
Posts: 19146
Location: bishop, ca | Sven, just for general information, could you post some pics of both sides of the rear parcel shelf's defroster and
speaker?
I'm curious if the same mechanisms were used throughout many years, and what the speaker grille appearance was.
Does the radio, itself, have a fader switch on it, for front and rear listening?
|
|
| |
|
Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+
Posts: 13045
Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Neil, I posted pictures of mine in "Heating Cooling and Airconditioning"
I will ask the owner about the fader next time I talk to him. |
|
| |
60 Chrysler Body Tag / VIN Plate
