A tale of two VINs?
David Castiaux of
Oklahoma City, OK recently
bought this Rampside and has parted it out. In David's
words:
"I recently bought this
truck in Arkansas for parts. It is
rusted away; I found that it did not have
many good parts after dragging it home. It had sat
in the weeds since 1977.
The VIN tag on the driver's door pillar post was missing
so I got the serial number from the frame (S106988). Something
struck me as strange is that there
a '9'
stamped directly under the last '8'
on the frame rail, almost like it had two VINs! The '9' didn't look like an
accident or misfire; it is perfectly lined up under the last '8' with good
spacing in between."
Regarding the extra "9",
Dave Newell offered:
"The digits were likely on a
rotating stamp and since 9 was the last digit of the next VIN, it must
have somehow made contact with the frame. Seems odd though that
it lined up that precisely."
Information from the data plate
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