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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
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