Looking for a VIN and fender tag for a 70 challenger produced in LA california.

[01freeman]

As far as the VIN location in the trunk lip area. check this link out.  http://www.angelfire.com/oh3/1970challenger/vin.html

[Cuda Cody]

That's a copy and paste information for B-Body VIN's.

The VIN in not on the trunk area on e-bodies.

As far as the VIN location in the trunk lip area. check this link out.  http://www.angelfire.com/oh3/1970challenger/vin.html

[ChallengerHK]

I have no proof of this at all, and it could be my memory failing me, but I could swear that my original tail panel had my serial number on it. I remember, very clearly, wondering if there was any good reason to cut that part out and save it when I had that panel replaced.

[Cuda Cody]

There are body panel numbers stamped in it, bit this has been discussed at length and no one has ever found a VIN that I know of on an ebody trunk lip.

I have no proof of this at all, and it could be my memory failing me, but I could swear that my original tail panel had my serial number on it. I remember, very clearly, wondering if there was any good reason to cut that part out and save it when I had that panel replaced.

['Cuda Hunter]

Should have saved it.

Never seen one before in that location.

[R/T hedkace]

not the complete VIN but the last few of the VIN is on the decklid opening showing production number.

I will take a pic and post it later this weekend.

 

[Cuda Cody]

I'm kinda excited to see the photo.  You never know what the factory did.   :  This might be a hard photo to get.

 

[ChallengerHK]

There are body panel numbers stamped in it,

I have to confess that I'm not familiar with the term "body panel number." I'm assuming from the contexts that this is not a part number and that no part of the VIN appears in it?

[Cuda Cody]

If you look at the panels really close on your car, you will probably see lots of numbers like the ones in these photos.  They are not the part number nor the VIN.  They can range from a couple letters or numbers to long series of digits.  My guess is most people see these numbers on the trunk and think it's a VIN.  No VIN was ever stamped on the trunk area of ebodies.  If it was, it would be SUPER easy to tell if it was factory or a fake.

I have to confess that I'm not familiar with the term "body panel number." I'm assuming from the contexts that this is not a part number and that no part of the VIN appears in it?

[Skunkworks Challenger]

Cody is right--as usual.  All panels and body parts have numbers on them but you will only find VIN's on the radiator yoke, fender tag and cowl.   The complete number is on the fender tag while the numerical digets are on the yoke and cowl.  Door jams might or might not have them on a sticker.

[Jamiez]

I wonder if it's possible...that someone has a VIN that happens to match a part number stamped on a panel?

[734406cuda]

i had a 72 barracuda that the vin was stamped on the the trunk lip on the pass side close to the the arm that holds the trunk lid its under the weather stripping its not the full vin just engine code year and body sequence like on the rad support

[Cuda Cody]

I would LOVE to see it.  Do you have a photo?  It would not be "like" the rad support, it would be the exact same font, style and wear as the rad support and cowl numbers.  Any slight variation in the stamp would be the same (like one number higher).

I'm really excited to see one of these trunk VIN numbers.  I've seen a lot of them on B-bodies, but never on an E-Body.  I stopped looking on E-bodies a long time ago, but now I'm going to check the 7 or 8 E-Bodies I've got here tomorrow.


EDIT:  BTW, all the E-bodies I've seen do not have the VIN stamped on the trunk area.  With that said there might be a few that did get it, but that would be the exception.  With or without it is not going to make any difference if it's a numbers matching car or not.  But dang it, it would be cool to actual see one of these on an E-Body!

i had a 72 barracuda that the vin was stamped on the the trunk lip on the pass side close to the the arm that holds the trunk lid its under the weather stripping its not the full vin just engine code year and body sequence like on the rad support

[Matt70]

 

[ChallengerHK]

I would LOVE to see it.  Do you have a photo?  It would not be "like" the rad support, it would be the exact same font, style and wear as the rad support and cowl numbers. 

For what it's worth, this is exactly what I recall being on the original panel. Six digits, identical stamping for depth, font, etc.

Here's why this made such an impression on me, and why I'm more willing to trust my memory for this than I perhaps otherwise would. These kind of numbers meant even less to me when I first bought the car than they do now. I just paid little attention to them. I needed the VIN to register the car, of course, but after that I promptly forgot it.

I was 17 at the time I noticed these numbers, but I didn't really understand them at all. Whenever I was working under the hood I'd seen the rad support stamp and wonder what it meant; I assumed it was a part number. Then I noticed that the trunk stamp was the same, so I knew it couldn't be a part number at that point. One day, for grins, I read the fender tag, trying to figure out what it meant; when I got to the end, and the last six digits matched those two stampings, it was like a lightning bolt. I told myself that I had to figure out what they meant and why they matched. It was about ten years later, after the tail panel had been replaced, before I really started to learn what these numbers were for.

Point of all this is, it's not a casual memory. It was a big deal for me to realize that these numbers were identical.