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Number: 1379
From: "Sandy Block" <cigarsandy@c...>
Date: Thu Sep 26, 2002 11:34 am
Subject: Re: [ASC McLaren ] CarFax
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ASCs....
There is nothing in the VIN to denote that a certain car is or is NOT
an asc/McLaren. This is true of any model/year from 1984 to 1990.
Brent, you are correct, the cars were ordered in batches, but not all
VINs are in order. Example of what I mean:
615010 thru 615070 might all be asc/McLarens....that would be 60
consecutive cars. THEN the next batch might be 615444 thru 615543,
or 100 cars to ASC. However, NONE between 615071 and 615443 went to
ASC. Understand?
--- In ascmclaren@y..., "Brent Abrams" <babrams@l...> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Anytime I come across an asc/Mclaren I have been recording the vin
number &
> info on the car and putting it in an Excel spreadsheet.
> I started doing this because many times I would see a car in a
parking lot,
> or at a car show and then I wonder if it was the same car I had
seen before
> or if it is a different one.
> There is another '86 EuroCoupe that is an almost exact duplicate of
mine,
> the ONLY difference is it has the power lock option and mine
doesn't. Here
> is what is most interesting to me about this, our vin numbers are
only FIVE
> numbers from each other. Mine is #618892 and it is #618897.
> I would bet that ASC ordered the cars from Ford in batches.
>
> Brent
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "negusm" <negusm@y...>
> To: <ascmclaren@y...>
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 9:52 AM
> Subject: [ASC McLaren ] CarFax
>
>
> > So I ordered a history report from car fax. It didn't really
tell me
> > much I didn't know, except the police report where the car was
hit in
> > Florida. I wonder if you can get an old Police report from the
> > report number....
> >
> > So I started messing around on the site and putting in various
made-
> > up VINS...one off from my own and it looks like all the cars were
the
> > same build type, 5L standard, etc....
> >
> > I then wondered if I should write a program to check all the VINS
> > against carfax and get a complete list of all the VINs for 1985
> > coupes that had that engine/tranny/body combination.
> >
> > Would that list be at all helpful? I'm not sure that it would. I
> > bet there would be thousands of VINS...
> >
> > what would be interesting is to see where these cars fell in the
> > production run...whether they were grouped or randomly spread
out...
> >
> > or maybe there is an easier way to get the list...I know carfax
> > obviously has it.
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> >
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