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The light package cost a little more on the 41 compared to the 21.

There are far, far too many printing, layout, coding and spelling errors and omissions. Whoever did this did not do good research. They simply looked up codes and prices they thought should be on a WS. IF the actual IBM card or broadcast sheet, does exits, that would be very helpful. This...

Beautiful car. Bogus documentation should always make you perk up..... Making up paperwork always sounds good at the time but in the end, when it's time to sell, it raises more questions than it should. Simply shred it.

The Schedule Build Date (SPD) and the following six letter and/or numbers together compose what is know in 1969 as the VEHICLE ORDER NUMBER (VON) They are administrative in purpose and totally unrelated to production. Cars were built well before and after the SPD. It is far more unlikely the car...

It's a known typo for '69 Jefferson. One can find similar misstampings at other plants. Humans made tags. Humans make stimakes. Tags have mistakes.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding..... We can certainly document the different VIN ranges for US and Canada sold cars in 1966 but I think we'll find for '65 Chryslers, there is no split VIN range between US and Canada cars. We can document US sold '65 Chrysler's with VINs in the 200000 range. The...

Do you mean built for sale in Canada or built in Canada?

@Torky is doing some really nice work on the 65s and earlier.

As we've seen, what actually came in the packages varies by trim level and/or body style. Here's a PL23 vs DL23 A07 comparison:

Nope. Read the letter.

While installed in almost every car, Radios were always optional and never required.

Here's the dealer letter regarding the A/C special package A07 package and availability. This also helps illustrate as to how options in a package could vary by sub model. What options a Polara with A07 received may or may not be the same as a Monaco with A07.

1) In today's money, this is about a $67,000 car without the cost of modern convenience and safety amenities added. 2) Please notice that even on a top end Imperial, a radio was not standard equipment. While installed in almost 100% of vehicles, a radio was not standard and could not be...

Most on line decoders are marginally helpful for newbies as they rarely give context, year, make and model or specific plant coding applications. Better resources for those unfamiliar with make and model codes are the factory Data and Trim books posted in the Hamtramck Historical library or...