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I gues by now you all know I am lil nuts about certain built dates and vin numbers !
it started yesterday when this Feb 77 came up for sale !!!
its Vin: U15GLY6667
http://classicbroncos.com/forums/showthread.php?t=286898&page=2
I know per Martin that vin U15GLY0598x is a Feb 16- 1977 ( at least until yesterday I assumed the reports printed by them are all correct ) !?!?
and that's why I got very interested in the one for sale ....
initially I though it could also be a feb 16 -77 but when I did the math:
77 they made 14,546.Broncos ..that's 1212 a month !
working mon-fri ... feb 77 had 20 workdays .. that's 60 broncos per day !
this one is U15GLY06667 - a diff. of 685 vin numbers !
Feb 16th was the 12th working day in 77 ... 61x12=732 broncos made by the end of that day that month !
The average math would tell ya every 8th or 9th vehicle coming of the assembly line was a bronco ... they made average 500 to 550 trucks a day. !?!? wow
even if GLY0598x was on of the first made that day ... based on that
GLY06667 was made on the thu.17th or fri. 18th that month !
After all that number crunching ...
AND THEN IT GOT NUTS !!!
FEB 77 vins are U15GLY00000 to U15GLY19999
okie4570 got GLY0129x made per martin 02-01-77
Slowleak got GLY0139x made per Martin 02-02-77
per martin GLY0598x was made 02-16-77
1, how is it possible to have a 129x vin on the first day of the month ...they didn't make 1300 vehicles that day !?!?!
2, How is it that 10 working days later ( on the 16th to get to Bronco GLY0598x ) they are "only" 4590 vehicles later !?!?
things just didn't add up !!!
so
Just got of the phone w. a lady from Martin ....Not pleasant and she got no clue !
1, she kept saying when you order a martin report from them they call Ford and it is what it is specific to that ordered vin / vin in question !
2, per her Kevin is never in and cant be talked to !
3, when I tired to explain to her the vin number and subsequently per issued reports from them the production date ...she told me to call ford !
when I ask her for the phone number she told me to look it up !
So now ... I need a direct phone number for the ford archive department !!
I am getting to the bottom of that ...even if I need to go to Michigan !
I have this gut feeling that the Martin production dates are TOTAL BS !!! just my opinion I could be wrong !!!
it started yesterday when this Feb 77 came up for sale !!!
its Vin: U15GLY6667
http://classicbroncos.com/forums/showthread.php?t=286898&page=2
I know per Martin that vin U15GLY0598x is a Feb 16- 1977 ( at least until yesterday I assumed the reports printed by them are all correct ) !?!?
and that's why I got very interested in the one for sale ....
initially I though it could also be a feb 16 -77 but when I did the math:
77 they made 14,546.Broncos ..that's 1212 a month !
working mon-fri ... feb 77 had 20 workdays .. that's 60 broncos per day !
this one is U15GLY06667 - a diff. of 685 vin numbers !
Feb 16th was the 12th working day in 77 ... 61x12=732 broncos made by the end of that day that month !
The average math would tell ya every 8th or 9th vehicle coming of the assembly line was a bronco ... they made average 500 to 550 trucks a day. !?!? wow
even if GLY0598x was on of the first made that day ... based on that
GLY06667 was made on the thu.17th or fri. 18th that month !
After all that number crunching ...
AND THEN IT GOT NUTS !!!
FEB 77 vins are U15GLY00000 to U15GLY19999
okie4570 got GLY0129x made per martin 02-01-77
Slowleak got GLY0139x made per Martin 02-02-77
per martin GLY0598x was made 02-16-77
1, how is it possible to have a 129x vin on the first day of the month ...they didn't make 1300 vehicles that day !?!?!
2, How is it that 10 working days later ( on the 16th to get to Bronco GLY0598x ) they are "only" 4590 vehicles later !?!?
things just didn't add up !!!
so
Just got of the phone w. a lady from Martin ....Not pleasant and she got no clue !
1, she kept saying when you order a martin report from them they call Ford and it is what it is specific to that ordered vin / vin in question !
2, per her Kevin is never in and cant be talked to !
3, when I tired to explain to her the vin number and subsequently per issued reports from them the production date ...she told me to call ford !
when I ask her for the phone number she told me to look it up !
So now ... I need a direct phone number for the ford archive department !!
I am getting to the bottom of that ...even if I need to go to Michigan !
I have this gut feeling that the Martin production dates are TOTAL BS !!! just my opinion I could be wrong !!!