XS to XX Charger 500 VIN - When did this change?

[maxwellwedge]

thanks for the pictures. I'll add them to the list of cars that I know of that are double stamped.

The 925xxx number is an indicator that its a C500. They are the only ones with a 925xxx number starting with 925001 for the first C500 and I have them all of the way up into 92574x's. The last three digits are unique to each car. Daytona's are 926xxx and 927xxx. The "9" at the begining signifies it being a special order. Not sure if there are 900xxx cars or not but I just know that all 925xxx cars are C500's.

The M-Code A12's (921,922, 948 and others) and the M-Code A-Bodies (1'st 440 69 Dart was 900900) were 9 series S.O.N.'s as well.

[nascarxx29]

http://www.cottonowens.com/1969_Charger500.shtml

"We found out that this was one of the very first Charger 500s produced," he says. "The serial number for the 500s, and later the Daytonas, began with the letters XX while the serial numbers for RT models began with XS. On this car, the fender tag has XS for the RT Charger because that's what it started out as. The serial number on the dash says XX, so we know it was one of the first Charger 500s to be produced. It probably came off the assembly line sometime in mid '68."

[69_500]

Cool, so reconfirms mine is a fairly early car, so where is 161 in your stack of 500s.  Do you recall any other threads on these numbers and related car options?

Your car (the black one anyways) is 57th when you sort them by VIN's sequentially. However there are several higher VIN'ed cars with lower SON than yours. I still can not find any sort of a rhyme or reason for their jumping up and down. All I know is that the first one is 925001 and the highest I have is 925743.

[nascarxx29]

Other than the 68 Charger 500 of Jerry S.The old Mike Russo 1st Charger 500 job number is  925000

[Alaskan_TA]

However there are several higher VIN'ed cars with lower SON than yours. I still can not find any sort of a rhyme or reason for their jumping up and down. All I know is that the first one is 925001 and the highest I have is 925743.

It happens with the M0 prefix AAR Cuda VONs also. In some places they jump and / or shuffle. My theory is that they were shuffled, literally. The stack of orders were sitting on a desk somewhere & they were looked through a few times, but not always returned in the correct order. The VON was assigned before the VIN, so I can see how it may have happened.

[XS29LA47V21]

However there are several higher VIN'ed cars with lower SON than yours. I still can not find any sort of a rhyme or reason for their jumping up and down. All I know is that the first one is 925001 and the highest I have is 925743.

It happens with the M0 prefix AAR Cuda VONs also. In some places they jump and / or shuffle. My theory is that they were shuffled, literally. The stack of orders were sitting on a desk somewhere & they were looked through a few times, but not always returned in the correct order. The VON was assigned before the VIN, so I can see how it may have happened.

I am gona run with you theory for a time in my head, until otherwise aligned, to step farther if the cars where assembly line done cars, maybe the shuffling was associated with matching some colors & options or got mixed with shipping/CI work, for maybe some ordered cars or some stretch along those lines....    I guess that aspect is not that important to me, but sure interesting.

Regarding the green heading north, I had no fender tag or build sht.....