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Re: [T3] Date Plate


On 9 Jan 2003 at 15:58, Dave Hall wrote:

> It's a 3" x 3/4" plate painted over at the left end of the front cross panel as
> viewed from in front of the car (ie not from inside the trunk!).  It is embossed
> with digits eg 12-3-4567, where 12 is the calendar week of the year (given by
> the third digit of the VIN) and 3 is the day of the week (eg Wednesday).  We're
> still working on the 4567, but the first of those digits seems to relate to a
> batch of production lines - most of ours are a '3', sometimes a '4'.

Sounds like the plate contents would be good things to include in the Registry 
database. It  might provide the key to figuring out the meanings of the rest of 
the digits, as well as provide interesting info on the cars themselves.


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