Re: Thief-Proof Numbers (body serial numbers)

Posted by PackardV8 On 2011/3/13 21:53:13

Has the thief proof numbers been analyzed against any new car oreder numbers???? Order numbers that would appeared on the actual order that was filled out for the car or the MSO. Original orders and MSO's are probably very rare to obtain.

At this point i'm more inclined to believe that the thief proof numbers must have some corelation to the VN. PMCC porbably used somekind of translation formulae to generate the theif proof number from the VN or engine number.

A variation on FIFO or LIFO of the numbers could have been an establishment of upper and lower bound for a sequence of numbers alternating from lowest to highest toward the center.

e.g.: Consider a ONE digit TP numnber and ONE digit VN.
A range is picked from 1 to 10. 1 the lowest, 10 the highest.

Then as the cars come sequentialy off of the line they have TP numbers 10,1,9,2,8,3,7,4,6,5. But have VN's as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.

VN 1 has TP 10
VN 2 has TP 1
VN 3 has TP 9
VN 4 has TP 2
Vn 5 has TP 8 and so on.

It is also possible that the range of TP numbers was picked excessively high. That would eleminate the use of any mode interval numbers near the center of the sequence.

In the above example TP numbers 4,5 and 6 may have never occured if only 6 or 7 cars were produced.