Is it BO and LO or is it B0 and L0….that is the question??
Ok, so I did some thinking about this. I’m not lucky to have owned any of the SS cars so I did some checking in my 68 service manual.
In the service manual it is clearly the letter O under the 2nd digit of the VIN numbers and the engine sizes are zeros, 170, 340, 440.
No letter O is used anywhere on the VIN plate for car make (1st letter) engine size (5th letter) or assembly plant (7th letter) so my thought is this, when building the SS cars why invest in another stamp for the letter O when you could just swap in the number 0 and let it go at that.
OK, rebuttals for those far more knowledge in the SS cars please. Also, anybody have a shot of the 1967 RO and WO Coronet and Belvedere VIN plate? Same font style letter O?
Cliff Ramsdell
Ok, so I did some thinking about this. I’m not lucky to have owned any of the SS cars so I did some checking in my 68 service manual.
In the service manual it is clearly the letter O under the 2nd digit of the VIN numbers and the engine sizes are zeros, 170, 340, 440.
No letter O is used anywhere on the VIN plate for car make (1st letter) engine size (5th letter) or assembly plant (7th letter) so my thought is this, when building the SS cars why invest in another stamp for the letter O when you could just swap in the number 0 and let it go at that.
OK, rebuttals for those far more knowledge in the SS cars please. Also, anybody have a shot of the 1967 RO and WO Coronet and Belvedere VIN plate? Same font style letter O?
Cliff Ramsdell
