76 Bronco VIN in glove one digit off from frame

[Skunkybud]

Not sure if this is unusual or not but the VIN on my glove and door is 77177 and on the frame is 76177. Any ideas to why this would be? Thanks for your help.

 

[okie4570]

Incorrect stamping or misreading of a frame vin has been known to happen

 

[Skunkybud]

thanks!!

 

[kyle]

It happens. I had one with transposed numbers.

 

[suckerpunched]

which one of the two matches the title? hopefully the one on the frame. You can get a replacement tag made for the glove box door that matches the frame from Kevin Marti. If it concerns you.

 

[kyle]

Like said above unfortunately mine was titled to the data tag.

 

[T-Bird]

My sons 77 has one number digit off also...probably a Monday or Friday production.

 

[Summersea]

I have a ‘66 frame with two consecutive numbers (851082 and 851083) stamped adjacent on the frame. The higher number has the “star” and the “V” stamped at the beginning and end and it also matches the title VIN. Somehow I get the feeling that the “stamping VIN’s on the frames job” was an entry level position.

 

[ared77]

Ford used to hand stamp the last six digits of the VIN on the block of some of their high performance cars. On Boss 302 Mustangs, for example, it was stamped on a flat pad just behind the rear of the aluminum intake manifold. It's very well know among the Boss crowd that because these were hand stamped there were sometimes mistakes. Pretty common to find partial VIN's, or ones were a number is off by one, etc. I've heard of times when a missing digit appeared after a block was out of the car and the owner really performed a "CSI" like process to try to bring a number out!

If the Bronco frame numbers were stamped by hand I'd imagine there are quite a few out there that may be slightly "off".

 

[ared77]

Here is an example from the Boss site where a guy was selling a Boss 302 block back in 2003. Toward the end of the ad he's talking about the fact that he can only see a partial VIN on that pad I was talking about -

http://www.boss302.com/smf/index.php?topic=3110.msg19157#msg19157