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66 budd vin tag decoding help.

HAZZARD66

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I was just looking at my vin tag and noticed something strange, it may be nothing.
So the truck is a September budd build nothing out of the normal with the actual vin number.
Looking at the rest of the tag I noticed the body code didn't match the 3 listed on roadsteru13,
196 bench
696 driver only
796 buckets

Mine is stamped 798?
When disassembling the truck it appeared to have a bulkhead bolted in from the factory. It's a u15 and had holes drilled for the hard top but didn't have a top when I got it.
The floorpans were so rotted I couldn't tell if it ever had a back seat bolted in and the front was mangled with a bench seat from a 70s dodge welded in. No way of telling what seats it had in it.

Is this a miss print on the vin tag? Or I have been told there was an option for a wagon with a bulkhead and no back seat so you could use it as a cargo carrier. Could that be what I have?

I didn't see anything searching on here, roadsteru13 or bronco Ohio.
 

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Slowleak

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The “7” is for driver and passenger bucket seats. The “98” is the body type for a wagon. So.. 798 is a U15 with bucket seats. A bulkhead would be standard unless a rear seat was ordered.
 

chris-nc

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Can't help you with the VIN decode, but noticed that your VIN is about the closest that I've seen to mine. Also a Budd build, built in September. U14FL754463. Only 2,599 away. Mine is also a paint code B!
 

okie4570

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Can't help you with the VIN decode, but noticed that your VIN is about the closest that I've seen to mine. Also a Budd build, built in September. U14FL754463. Only 2,599 away. Mine is also a paint code B!

I've documented these 66 u13 that are still on the road, pretty close to you.
U13FL754145
U13FL754464
U13FL754466
U13FL754467
 
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HAZZARD66

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The “7” is for driver and passenger bucket seats. The “98” is the body type for a wagon. So.. 798 is a U15 with bucket seats. A bulkhead would be standard unless a rear seat was ordered.

Thank you I couldn't find anything on the differences on the body codes. I thought it just referenced just the seating not the roof configuration as well.
 

Slowleak

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