DMVs didn't use the vin coding to determine the year, back then vehicles were titled as the year of first sale/registration, not the mfgrs model year, and each year sales started in the fall of the calender year preceding the model year

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics