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Title: Unusual ID numbers
Post by: air-chief on June 05, 2005, 09:20:37 AM

Hi Guys

I was up at a mates farm today and had a look at the old FE Ute he has. I noticed on a ID plate that beside(to the right) of the stamped trim and paint numbers were a couple of letters stamped. Half way between them the letters "A S" are stamped.
I removed the ID tag so i could take photos of it to post up.

Any ideas???

Cheers a-c

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y220/air-chief/idplates0022.jpg)

Title: Re: Unusual ID numbers
Post by: mcl1959 on June 05, 2005, 09:31:36 AM

All Sydney FE utes had AS stamped after the trim number - All I can presume is that the Sydney plant used a different trim manufacturer than all the other plants and therefore they were identified by the letter stamp after the numbers
Interestingly Sydney special sedans have AO, standard sedans have AP & business sedans have AQ
All sydney vans and wagons were made in Adelaide so they dont have the code.
But AO, AP, AQ, AR, AS is alphabetical - and there is no AR code that I have ever seen. Possibly this was reserved for Sydney production of wagons or vans which never happened.

Intrigueing isn't it? Ken

Title: Re: Unusual ID numbers
Post by: air-chief on June 10, 2005, 08:33:09 AM

Hi Ken

Thanks for the reply, very interesting. Was this letter coding only used on the FE's or did it carry onto FC's as well?

Regards Mark.

Title: Re: Unusual ID numbers
Post by: mcl1959 on June 10, 2005, 09:02:48 AM

FE's only

Ken

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