Fender Tag Reading & VIN decoding help Needed 66 Fury III

[HOT FURY]

I'm having a hell of a time finding anything to decipher the fender tag for my specific model year. Anyone have any suggestions since most of the readers I've found are for later models?

Trying to get more info on this than what I've already figured out which is basically year, model, and engine option. The body, chassis, etc is in great shape but want to figure out what has been changed from factory as I restore it if possible.

Fender Tag Reads the following from what I can see:
Lower case letter row nothing embossed below

Upper Case Letter Row
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
6 1 5 1 1 1 1

SO NUMBER BODY TRIM PAINT
62704001 PH23 H5T YY1W

 

[CBODY67]

The VIN will define the basic vehicle. Brand, model, trim level, engine, etc. This can be done with a downloadable Chrysler service manual's "Information" section. www.mymopar.com

From there, you can head over to www.hamtramk-historical.com and search the "Library" got your particular model of Plymouth in the respective model year . . . to see what was standard equipment and what was possibly optional. The Dealer Order Guide and Color and Trim books will help in this search, too, all in the same "Library" area.

From my observations, many of the VIN Decoders are more oriented toward "muscle cars" of the later 1960s - earlier 1970s. Or are for some specific model year of ealier 1960s Mopar race performance vehicles. Seems like there are some threads in here on mid-60s Chrysler data plate decodes?

Finding a Build Sheet would further nail things down. Looked for one of those under the rear seat or other places? Unfortunatley, some things on C-bodies still have to be discovered "manually" rather than otherwise. But once you learn these things, it's not that hard to do.

Happy Holidays!
CBODY67

 

[HOT FURY]

The VIN will define the basic vehicle. Brand, model, trim level, engine, etc. This can be done with a downloadable Chrysler service manual's "Information" section. www.mymopar.com

From there, you can head over to www.hamtramk-historical.com and search the "Library" got your particular model of Plymouth in the respective model year . . . to see what was standard equipment and what was possibly optional. The Dealer Order Guide and Color and Trim books will help in this search, too, all in the same "Library" area.

From my observations, many of the VIN Decoders are more oriented toward "muscle cars" of the later 1960s - earlier 1970s. Or are for some specific model year of ealier 1960s Mopar race performance vehicles. Seems like there are some threads in here on mid-60s Chrysler data plate decodes?

Finding a Build Sheet would further nail things down. Looked for one of those under the rear seat or other places? Unfortunatley, some things on C-bodies still have to be discovered "manually" rather than otherwise. But once you learn these things, it's not that hard to do.

Happy Holidays!
CBODY67

Sweet Thx!

 

[413]

383 2bbl
727 automatic
CAP cleaner air package- California
26” rad support
AM radio
Air Conditioning
6/27/1966 scheduled build date
Tan vinyl bench seat
Bronze metallic paint
White pinstripe

I’ve not for an online decoder that can do 66-68 tags very well.

 

[shooter65]

This style data plate is IMO a challenge. The hardest part from my perspective is that they don't seem to always line up with the legend line properly. Be careful of assuming the R1 and S1 are correct, It my actually be Q1 and R1 or S1 and T1. I've even come across some that are even further off center. My belief is that the tags were pre-stamped but the stamping for the options had a larger or smaller font. In your case, it seems the options are a larger font, which would make them not line up, especially the further right on the tag you go. ie. R and S. What you may want to do is check if the options for the preceding letters are on your car that are not obviously stamped on the tag. This isn't an assurance of an accurate decode but just something to consider.

 

[HOT FURY]

383 2bbl
727 automatic
CAP cleaner air package- California
26” rad support
AM radio
Air Conditioning
6/27/1966 scheduled build date
Tan vinyl bench seat
Bronze metallic paint
White pinstripe

I’ve not for an online decoder that can do 66-68 tags very well.

Thx for the help, definite thumbs down on anything clean air package on a classic but if it was always a west coast car that would explain the sheet metal being in such good shape

 

[69CoronetRT]

This style data plate is IMO a challenge. The hardest part from my perspective is that they don't seem to always line up with the legend line properly. Be careful of assuming the R1 and S1 are correct, It my actually be Q1 and R1 or S1 and T1. I've even come across some that are even further off center. My belief is that the tags were pre-stamped but the stamping for the options had a larger or smaller font. In your case, it seems the options are a larger font, which would make them not line up, especially the further right on the tag you go. ie. R and S. What you may want to do is check if the options for the preceding letters are on your car that are not obviously stamped on the tag. This isn't an assurance of an accurate decode but just something to consider.
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Certainly factory errors exist on tags. But they are rare.

Because of the intent of the tag, the underlying coding for a tag and historically how a plant coded a tag, it would be near impossible for codes to be shifted so far left or right to change the intended codes leading to an erroneous miscode. Miscoding to that extent would lead to catastrophic construction miscommunication and totally negate a tag.

Because of the unique car info on each tag, it would be illogical and inefficient to pre stamp a tag. You’d do it all at once to prevent handling a tag multiple times and eliminate potential errors.

 

[Charlie's 66 Fury]

Does anyone know if the radiators on a 383 CAP was a higher capacity than a radiator for a non-CAP 383?

 

[MrMoparCHP]

This style data plate is IMO a challenge. The hardest part from my perspective is that they don't seem to always line up with the legend line properly. Be careful of assuming the R1 and S1 are correct, It my actually be Q1 and R1 or S1 and T1. I've even come across some that are even further off center. My belief is that the tags were pre-stamped but the stamping for the options had a larger or smaller font. In your case, it seems the options are a larger font, which would make them not line up, especially the further right on the tag you go. ie. R and S. What you may want to do is check if the options for the preceding letters are on your car that are not obviously stamped on the tag. This isn't an assurance of an accurate decode but just something to consider.
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All the codes have the same offset, even the bottom row.


Alan