new ride, 68 barracuda formula 1 ? Help Decode !!!

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Aloha, Need help to decode Vin.BH23H8B244969. Hoping its the real deal . Mahalo C
 
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1966 to 1974 Chrysler Corporation V.I.N. system decoding

Vin.BH23HBB244969 (I think it should read BH23H8B244969 - that second B in your number should be an 8)

1st digit - B - Barracuda
2nd digit - H- High Price Class
3rd & 4th digits - 23 - 2 door hardtop
5th digit - H - 383 1-4BBL 8 Cylinder "B" engine (High Performance)
6th Digit - 8 - 1968 Model Year
7th Digit - B - Hamtramck, Michigan Assembly Plant
The remaining six digits indicate the sequence number (serial number)


1968 Codes:

First digit = car line

B - Plymouth Barracuda ("A" Body)

C - Chrysler Newport, 300, New Yorker ("C" body)

D - Dodge Polara, Monaco ("C" body)

L - Dodge Dart ("A" Body)

P - Plymouth Fury, VIP ("C" body)

R - Plymouth Belvedere, Satellite ("B" body)

V - Plymouth Valiant ("A" body)

W - Dodge Coronet ("B" body)

X - Dodge Charger ("B" body)

Y - Imperial Crown, LeBaron ("C" body)



Second digit = Price class

E – Economy

L – Low

M – Medium

H - High

P - Premium

S – Special

K - Police

T - Taxi



Third and fourth digits = body style

21 - 2 door sedan or coupe

23 - 2 door hardtop

27 – Convertible

29 - 2 door sports hardtop

41 - 4 door sedan

43 - 4 door hardtop

45 - 6 passenger station wagon

46 - 9 passenger station wagon



Fifth digit = engine

A - 170 1-1BBL 6 Cylinder "G" engine

B - 225 1-1BBL 6 Cylinder "RG" engine

C – Special Order 6 Cylinder engine

D - 273 1-2BBL 8 Cylinder "LA" engine

F - 318 1-2BBL 8 Cylinder "LA" engine

G - 383 1-2BBL 8 Cylinder "B" engine

H - 383 1-4BBL 8 Cylinder "B" engine (High Performance)

J - 426 2-4BBL 8 Cylinder "RB" engine (Hemi)

K - 440 1-4BBL 8 Cylinder "RB" engine

L - 440 1-4BBL 8 Cylinder "RB" engine (High Performance)

M – Special Order 8 Cylinder engine

P - 340 1-4BBL 8 Cylinder "LA" engine (High Performance)



Sixth digit = model year

8 - 1968



Seventh Digit = Assembly Plant

A – Lynch Road, Michigan

B - Hamtramck, Michigan

C – Jefferson, Michigan

D – Belvedere, Illinois

E – Los Angeles, California

F – Newark, Delaware

G – St. Louis, Missouri

R – Windsor, Ontario, Canada

The remaining six digits indicate the sequence number (serial number)
 
Thank you, So how about it being a 4 speed , Heater delete , Code 5 color Etc. How do I find that info ? Mahalo C
 
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How about car pics??? H in the vin is 383, is it auto or 4speed?
 
Formula S not 1. Would love to see pics
My Bad, Its all tore apart. came with ugly front clip. Some body's strange idea. But came with other fenders , grille an such
 
Ugly front clip, Will be yard art soon !!!

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Going to try and bring her back all original 1968 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S / 383 , 4 speed , heater delete, code 5 blue. I have another body that is on a rotisserie. but quarters are really bad. It would need to much $$$ to restore so I am going to use the first car "67" and combine the "68" and make 1 Beautiful ride. Or least I hope too .
 
its on the rotisserie , not close by, I will send pict. asap.
 
what ever you do, do not rebody it. 67 is different than 68. You can tell the difference
 
It cant be that hard to change it all over, holes in quarter panels , dash, all the trim. trying to figure out if its worth putting the money into to fix original body. or just rebody it . Parts are just so hard to find in Hawaii. and shipping cost is crazy. As it is I need a hood , trunk and seats
 
Be careful, All the panels have numbers on them and all are not the same between the 2 years.
 
Ok, I guess the question is, What's a rebodied 68 form. S , with $5000. of body work done to it. worth ? Compared to an original with $20.000 worth of body work done to it ? Am I going to come out ahead ? I think I will come out about the same in Value after the fact of my cost . My problem is I don't have the 15 to 20 thou. to spend, but I can come up with the 5 to 10 thou.
 
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Your posts are all extremely ambiguous.
Putting wrong year bolt-ons does not a rebody make.
If you want to build a 68 S, you simply use the 68 tub with matching VIN, and bolt on whatever you want.You can mod your 67 front clip and bolt it on. Nobody is going to be fooled by the recipe. Sure at resale time, the car will sell at a price below what an all-original-parts, 68S might; No biggie. If the tub number and powertrain numbers match the VIN, and the VIN says 68S, then you still have a 68S. It would just be 68S with a different clip.

I myself have a 68. I call it my S-clone, so I'm right up front about it not being a true S.It started life as a mundane slanty A/T car. The Vin still says so. And the Vin matches the tub. It has one 69 front fender, and 69 tailights. I tried to put a 67 grill in it but absolutely nothing is the same as to grills in the 67/68/69 series
The car now has a 360 painted Orange, and a 4-spd, and has Duster K and suspension.
The first point is; build it anyway you like, but keep the tub and VIN together and untouched.
The second point is; do not attempt to convert the 67 into a true 68S. There are over 40,000 of us here that know you; and Hawaii ain't that big.
If your 67 tub is the better one, take whatever you need from the 68S; EXCEPT the tub, the VIN, and the powertrain. Sell those as a pkg, to help finance the 67build. Somebody, somewhere, has got to have a dream of building a 68 383 S car.
But you better do it fast, cuz I know a guy with a 68 383S tub and matching VIN.
 
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I would never sell the car as an original with the 67 body or "tub" it goes against everything that I am. But the 68 tub is bad, and would take a lot to rebuild. the best part is the floor pan with the 4 speed tunnel. which I will need if I use the 67. some one cut up the 67 floor pan , some dumb young kid . The easy way out is to rebody it but I'm Thinking hard on trying to fix 68 body. As I have all the 68 parts except hood ,trunk n seats . As the 383motor and 4 speed trans is all matching to the 68 S , I would hate to brake them up . I guess I will cut up the 67 and use all the sheet metal for the 68 and keep it all correct. But I still have a lot of thinking to do . Thanks or all the advice, C
 
Ok,C
looks like we're on the same page.
What you might try is to test the waters, with a 4 sale ad or a trade ad, and see if someone is interested in the 68. Maybe you can get what you need without cutting it.
That 68 sounds attractive. By the time you get the tub ready, maybe the missing parts become available.
IDK

Good luck
 
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If you rebody the thing, you may as well make it a camaro.
 
Shame on u guys , bringing up a "chevy" on a Mopar site. Heaven forbid . So I talked to a guy last night, he said he could take the pieces off 67 and splice them on the 68 S for $5000. Now that I can Afford , So NO rebody going on gentlemen . Only good old fashion cut splice & weld. Wish me luck cuz I'm going to need it. Mahalo C
Post script / If anybody has a Hood , trunk and or bucket seats for a 68 S or parts that will work, Please contact me. Mahalo from Hawaii , where its Mopar or no car for us few. C
 
Now hold on there Cowboy;
Both the Nomad and the Camaro, are two of the best looking Gms of all time. The Nomad even has a full frame. You can put almost any other body onto it and get a re-bodied almost any thing. Why you would want to do such a dastardly thing is another talk. And the Camaro clips and running gear are out there powering all manner of vehicles; so whatever they're under, has been re-bodied.
Getting back to re-bodying your A-body, I see that as a real exercise in why-for. There has got to be ten thousand better ideas.

Or perhaps I just don't understand re-body the way you do,lol.

I saw and touched a re-framed Barracuda this one time tho; It was a tow-truck.
I saw a picture of a re-framed Barracuda this one time; it was an early-style monster-truck .
I saw a picture once of how someone had turned a Barracuda into a sortof smaller-scale Superbird.IDK if you could call that a rebody, probly just a customized fish/bird hybrid, funny-looking, all-in-the-family, Plymouth.
 
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