The VIN on my 79 pace car is xxx481547.
If 48 means Pace Car, does that mean it was the 1547th Pace Car made?
The VIN on my 79 pace car is xxx481547.
If 48 means Pace Car, does that mean it was the 1547th Pace Car made?
Last edited by PaceFever79; 02-09-2009 at 11:27 PM.
What is the whole vin # - that would help. Did all Pace car's have a 48 in the consecutive unit number? Or did Ford make +-400,000 Mustangs in 1979?
2007 SL55 - Capri Blue - Leather, 487/560 WHP/WTQ at 13.5PSI
you don't need to who vin to know its a pace car, he's got the 48 in there right before the sequence number. That's all thats needed to know. Given what he has told us about the car, the vin should be 9F03F481547.
9 - 1979
F - dearborn
03 - Mustang Hatchback
F - 302 V8 2BBL
481547 - sequence number which breaks down further to:
48- pace car designation
1547 - sequence number of pace car
Just checked. Mine says 05/1979 on the door tag.
Is it possible it's an early production Dearborn assembled Pace Car?
The 1547th Ford vehicle made would seem encouraging...
But the May 79 door tag seems otherwise.
Thanks
Grtz, Ronald
www.dutch-twister.nl
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1970 Mach1 Twister Special
1979 Indianapolis Pace Car Special
1979 Indianapolis Pace Car Go-Kart
2007 Saleen Parnelli Jones # 161
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There's no substitude for cubic inches
If that's the way it is, then this one was 9F03F481547 made at Dearborn. There could have been a 9R03x481547 made at San Jose.
No way to know which PC of the total 10,47nth this one is.
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Sorry for my confusion - so the 48 occurs in all Pace car Vins? So the Pace cars were on a different consecutive vin number track from all other Mustangs?
2007 SL55 - Capri Blue - Leather, 487/560 WHP/WTQ at 13.5PSI
Thanks - I just love learning these little facts!
2007 SL55 - Capri Blue - Leather, 487/560 WHP/WTQ at 13.5PSI
As to why 480001 was the starting point, I dont know. I have good idea though...
well do tell......if I had to guess your idea would be a well educated one.
1985 Mustang 5.0 coupe - dad's
1983 Mustang GT sold deeply missed
1981 Mercury Capri sold, not so missed (too far gone)
1991 LX 5.0 vert sold
2000 GT 75 mm TB, PP upper plenum, CAI, x pipe w/flows, SCT xcal 2 with a BAMAchips custom tune
OK...
Fact #1: All Ford cars start with 100001 each model year at their respective assembly plant.
(Lincoln and Mercury start at 600001 each model year at their respective assembly plants.)
Fact #2: Ford sold 369,936 '79 Mustangs.
That roughly* puts the last consecutive unit number at 459465 (doesn't include the 10,471 replica Pace Cars).
My educated guess is that Ford considered how many 'regular' '79 Mustangs they were selling, projected that figure through the end of the model year, and then started the Pace Car with a number higher than they thought the regular production run would reach, but not so high as to reach the L/M starting point.
*I say "roughly" because sometimes single CUNs or blocks of them may be skipped and not used.
Last edited by FoxChassis; 02-12-2009 at 12:58 AM.
makes perfect sense. While not a "fact" could be some good info to bat around, maybe poll for the highest CUN on a non pace 79 for fun.
1985 Mustang 5.0 coupe - dad's
1983 Mustang GT sold deeply missed
1981 Mercury Capri sold, not so missed (too far gone)
1991 LX 5.0 vert sold
2000 GT 75 mm TB, PP upper plenum, CAI, x pipe w/flows, SCT xcal 2 with a BAMAchips custom tune
If you have a Marti Report, like I do, it says for my 9F03F482720:
2720th Pace Car Replica sceduled for production at Dearborn
Highest number I've seen so far is 9F03F487823 for Dearborn
Highest number for San Jose I've seen 9R03F482804
7823 + 2804 = 10627 total
strange, cause there only 10478 build
Maybe I have a vincode wrong
Grtz, Ronald
www.dutch-twister.nl
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1970 Mach1 Twister Special
1979 Indianapolis Pace Car Special
1979 Indianapolis Pace Car Go-Kart
2007 Saleen Parnelli Jones # 161
---------------------------------
There's no substitude for cubic inches
I might still have some paperwork or pictures on my Pace Car that I sold years ago. It was #7516 from Dearborn. It was also mfg'd at sometime in May, I seem to remember it being possibly the same week as the race itself, which I found intriguing. I am pretty sure I may still have my membership information from the pace car registry as well, which had more details on production etc.
FoxChassis' analysis seems pretty spot on for the numbering (and reasoning) as Pace Cars were mfg'd towards the end of the production for the 79 model year.
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