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In reviewing pictures sent to me by another member, I found that my unmolested ID plate serial number is 10,000 higher than a car delivered 3 weeks later.

Bodies pre-staged? Seems an awfully large difference for that.

Most certainly a reproduction plate, but is the serial number a fantasy?

Ray,

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Delivery dates were stamped when the car was sold to the customer, not produced. So the two numbers have no bearing on one another really.

So 10,000+ cars staged and awaiting delivery?

Nothing to say that one car didn't sit on a dealer lot for 11 months before it was sold, and during that time 10,000 other cars were produced and sold.

The delivery date was stamped by the selling dealer at the time the customer bought/picked up the car. So any amount of time could have lapse between the car was produced, and actually sold (aka delivered)

thanks,

I always assumed delivery date was to distribution center or dealer, not end user. Guess a set of stamps was part of the "dealer prep" of its day.

Does your car have a custom built body or special order features?

A custom body car could have started out as a finished chassis with radiator, cowl and fenders. After sitting in a warehouse, it was shipped to the body company, where it sat for several months while workmen built the body then painted and trimmed it before shipping to the dealer for delivery.

How do the delivery dates compare? I see they are less than a month apart.

I believe the Vehicle Number was stamped at the factory, and the delivery date and dealership name was stamped at the dealer. This is why a lot of times the those the VN stamp looks a bit different than the other two. Different styles of stamps.