vin question

I did not, but the blue looked the old 70 Challenger color. If it had been pale yellow originally, we could have filled in a piece of your build sheet/ tag, otherwise std. factory paint codes (available throughout the year for color) applied to sheet /tag. Pale yellow would be factory Dart Charger (V8 w/ 4 bbl) (limited special order) (through ~mid-March) or Go/Go addition (/6 or V8) (~mid March- June, - with racing stripe).

Your sheet/ tag would have had interior /exterior/ trim /vinyl top color (if present). GT would have had the already had buckets, floor console (6 or 8), most likely remote mirror. (auto or 4-spd). 2 or 4 bbl V8 (31 or 32). You should be able to list those.

I am just guessing about the build date, but looks like they were only running one shift at max or about 30-40 cars an hour for two shifts, not 57 car per hour for two shifts.

VIN
The VIN includes your car vs the rest of the LA plant's total production (all models - year to date)..The Coronet told us the factory total at the end of May, and we had a Dart VIN from sometime in March,(just March -no specific date). After they built the Coronet in late May they probably continued to build ~2000 cars a week for two or three more weeks (possibly) in 1965 before shutdown / changeover.

So the last VIN # from the LA plant from 1965 would have/ could have been something like XXXX184001 (you can insert the actual production figure - I don't know it). Had Cali added on to that to create a new VIN for your car it would have been L455184002, not L455170528. (Just my thought/ guess-
your original VIN on a replacement Cali tag?)

Thieves probably ground the original tag down and the original owner got the car back, showed the title, and Cali re-issued and put the old VIN # back on with the replacement tag. Or maybe the tag was simply damaged/ or they removed the original tag for the repaint/ total restoration and DMV didnot like the way they re-attached the tag. Check out the circular marks on the replacement VIN Tag from the Hi-Loc (?) riveter. That thing is not falling off.